This 1966 booklet is an evolution of the Midnight Sun booklets describing the facilities on board CN’s steamships and views along the way to Skagway, Alaska. In the 1960s, CN evidently decided to replace the totem pole shown on the covers of the 1937-1951 or so versions with a different color photo each year showing a beautiful couple on board the ship. The totem pole theme, however, was continued on the back with a modernistic painting of two faces of a pole.

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Inside, the text has been updated but still follows the same outline and even uses much of the same text as was found in the 1928 edition. “Three sharp blasts of the whistle,” the descriptive notes began in both 1928 and 1966. “The order is given to ‘let go’ the lines. The steamer backs majestically into Vancouver harbor.”

While descriptions of Juneau, Ketchikan, and some other ports have been updated by the introduction of $50 million pulp mills and other new industries, two pages of text about Skagway remained the same in both editions. That makes sense as, at least since 1920, Skagway’s main industry has always been tourism.