Instead of the pre-war booklets which were 20 or more pages long, in 1970 CN advertised its Alaska steamship service with this brochure, which opens up to the equivalent of about six pages. But those pages are filled with color photos that show off the journey much better than the black-and-white photos of the earlier booklets.

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Although this booklet has 17 color photos, only five of them are actually taken in Alaska, and two of those were indoors. One shows a tourist browsing through some of the local crafts that people could buy at a souvenir shop and the other shows dancing girls at a Days of ’98 show in Skagway. Both the souvenir shops and musical shows are still available in abundance in southeast Alaska. A third photo, which we have to presume was taken in Alaska, shows passengers disembarking from the ship with a local band playing and being ignored by those passengers.

The rest of the photos show what life was like aboard the the Super Continental and Prince George. Some of the latter show on-board games, food, and a stateroom. Although the Inside Passage to Alaska is beautiful, it can also be boring, especially at a speed of 20 knots: there are just so many views of trees on hillsides above the water before they all begin to look alike, so the company needed to offer shuffleboard and other things to entertain passengers during the less spectacular parts.