While this menu was used aboard the Prince George in 1971, we previously seen similar menus from 1964. Both the 1964 and 1971 menus have black covers with photographs in a circle and both were used in service on the Prince George to Alaska.

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This menu is dated June 30. The Prince George was scheduled to leave Vancouver at 10:00 pm on June 29, so this would have been the first full dinner on this cruise. The Prince George didn’t make any stops on that day.

The 1964 versions, like Prince George menus before them, had a “programme of music” on page 2 and the menu on page 3. But the music program is gone in 1971, replaced by a Robert Service poem. Either CN had given up on playing music during dinner or passengers had lost interest in what was being played.

The photo on the back cover shows flowers blooming in an Alaska summer, probably in Skagway, which was proud of its flower gardens at such a northern latitude. The overly contrasty front cover photo is described as “The Prince George and Alaska call it a day.” In late June, when this menu was used, the sun barely set in Alaska, so “calling it a day” really didn’t have much meaning.