We’ve previously seen many dinner menus used on Canadian National steamships to Alaska, but I believe these are the first breakfast menus. These probably aren’t representative of foods served to Alaska tourists as they are dated February 1945, which is both non-tourist season and a non-tourist year.

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Unlike the dinner menus, which are folders, these are cards. The first is dated February 18, and it actually has a pretty wide selection of choices, including five juices, six fruits, nine cereals, two fish, ham, bacon, turkey, sausage, eggs, hot cakes, and much more. Note, however, that there is no beef or lamb on the menu, probably out of deference to war-time needs.

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The second menu, dated February 19, is pretty similar. It has the same fruits and cereals, two different fish, the same bacon, ham, and eggs, calves liver and “hashed young fowl” instead of turkey and sausage, “Scotch scones” instead of “health muffins,” and similar beverages. Even if passengers didn’t always get their first choices, it doesn’t seen likely that anyone went hungry on the Prince George even if they sailed during a wartime winter.

Unfortunately, someone cut the top and sides off the second menu so they could fit it into a scrapbook. I digitally repaired it, so if you see any imperfections, they are probably the fault of this repair rather than the original menu.