We’ve previously seen editions of this booklet from 1937 and 1950. Today’s is from 1951. I’ve seen booklets like these dating back to at least 1928, but the sun-ray-and-totem-pole covers only began in the mid-1930s.

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Other than the colors on the cover, differences are small. The interior pages in the 1950 booklet were printed in a reddish-brown color; in 1951 they were black. A photograph on page 10 was replaced with text describing how train passengers can have their luggage transferred to the ship, as CN’s Vancouver station (unlike CP’s) was located about two miles away from the docks. Some white space on page 2 of the 1950 edition was used to remind readers of the 1951 edition that starboard is right and port is left.

Otherwise, the first 16 pages of the 1950 and 1951 versions are nearly identical. Some boosterish text was added about the city of Prince Rupert on page 17, which pushes other text in the booklet down somewhat. For some reason, the editor of the 1951 edition decided to recover that space by deleting headlines about the return voyage from Skagway to Vancouver from pages 26 and 28, which wasn’t necessary as a lot of white space was left on page 31.