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The 1939 Royal Tour of Canada (which also dipped down to Washington DC) aimed to shore up North American support for the British in World War II. It also helped give the king an aura of legitimacy after he ascended … Continue reading
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The haunting photo on the cover of this menu is made even spookier by tilting it parallel to the diagonal borders rather than perpendicular to the vertical borders, which means all the water should be running off to the left. … Continue reading
Many Canadian National menus have a photo on the front cover and a brief description of the photo on the back. This one is unusual in that it has photos on both front and back covers with no description of … Continue reading
Today’s menu may be from the same voyage as yesterday’s as they are dated a few days apart. It features a scene of Prince Rupert or possibly Prince George heading north up Alaska’s Lynn Canal, the fjord between Juneau and … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1950 menu card for breakfast aboard the Prince George. This is a 1934 breakfast card for the Prince Rupert. Click image to download a 619-KB PDF of this menu. The ship was named for its home … Continue reading
In 1793, British explorer Alexander MacKenzie led the first party of Europeans across North American by land. When they first sighted the Pacific, MacKenzie said he painted the words “Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one … Continue reading
During the Anglo-French War of 1627-1629, the British successfully captured all of Quebec but were unable to take Fort Lomeron, in what is now Nova Scotia. The fort was under the command of Charles de La Tour, whose father, Claude … Continue reading
“The first christening of land in British Columbia” refers to the first time a European saw and named a piece of land in what would become British Columbia. The fact that thousands of Native Americans already lived there and had … Continue reading
Apparently, the first meeting concerning the governance of a British colony in what became Nova Scotia took place aboard a ship, thus continuing the nautical theme of this series of menus. The back of the menu identifies the seven men … Continue reading
Here’s another Alaska steamship dinner menu whose cover, like yesterday’s, has more to do with the Caribbean than with the North Pacific. Barbados was claimed by the Portuguese in the 1500s but then abandoned after they enslaved most of its … Continue reading