Kickinghorse River Dinner Menu from 1952

This menu’s cover photo with a young woman precariously perched next to the river had also been used on a 1949 menu from the Chateau Lake Louise and a 1957 menu used on the Empress of Britain. This one differs from the other two in the rose colored background on the covers. The flag in the lower left corner of the front cover signals this was used on a steamship, in this case on in Alaska service.

Click image to download an 2.0-MB PDF of this menu.

The inside front cover has photos of sights people would see if they continued on north of Skagway: a view from a White Pass train; a steamboat running the White Horse River rapids; a highway bridge across the White River; and Dawson City, Yukon. The unpriced menu offered halibut, cod, fried bananas, roast pork, spring lamb, and duck.

As readers may have noticed, I am filling in gaps in the Canadian Pacific menu series presented here, including menus that feature the same photos as others but with a different cover design. This particular menu is from the Chung collection, which included it with several other items from an Alaska cruise. I used only the menu and cleaned it up a bit for posting here.


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