Lake Louise Alaska Dinner Menu

At first glance, this undated menu appears to have a lot in common with yesterday’s: a cover featuring a Canadian Pacific Rocky Mountain resort with an undated dinner menu on an unnamed Alaska steamship inside. I dated yesterday’s menu to the early 1930s solely on the statement that Canadian Pacific had 17 hotels when the menu was issued.

Click image to download a 1.3-MB PDF of this menu.

Today’s menu lists only 15 hotels on the back, so it is clearly from a different era. The color photo dates it to at least several years after yesterday’s, which had a painting on the cover. Like yesterday’s, this one has a muddy black-and-white photo of a steamship on the menu page, only the steamship has a single funnel instead of three, which means it is probably the Princess Alice, Princess Mary, or Princess Adelaide. At least one of these ships remained in Canadian Pacific service until 1954.

A better clue comes from the declaration on the menu page that this was for a “meatless day.” As I discovered for a previous Canadian Pacific menu, meatless days began in 1947 as a way of setting aside food for the reconstruction of post-war Europe. So this menu probably dates to 1947 or 1948.


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