By 1963, Canadian National Steamships had replaced the brightly colored paintings on the covers of its 1950s menus with somewhat drab photographs. Southeast Alaska is an amazing place, but this photo makes it seem just a little washed out. Perhaps … Continue reading
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Canadian National’s 1956 timetable lists at least eleven trains in the Montreal-Toronto corridor as pool trains, meaning they shared some costs with and accepted tickets issued by the Canadian Pacific. Confusingly, for passengers, not all trains in the corridor were … Continue reading
Although Cape Breton is an island, it is less than a mile from the mainland and connected with it by a rock-filled causeway. In Cape Breton, says the back of this menu, “most of the voices are Scotch, many of … Continue reading
Someone collected this menu as a souvenir of a ride on a CN train from Cornwall, Ontario to Detroit on August 13, 1954. From the notes, it appears they ordered fruit juice, French onion soup, a sirloin steak (which is … Continue reading
The cover of this menu is meant to illustrate how narrow the channel is for some portions of the Inside Passage. The illustration makes it appear that the channel is about twice as wide as the Prince George was long, … Continue reading
This menu shows the closest view yet of the Prince George, as well as what I suspect is a highly stylized view of a glacier draining into the Inside Passage. The Prince George passed at least four glaciers on its … Continue reading
Dated July 30, 1952 — just two days after yesterday’s menu — this was no doubt used on the same voyage of the Prince George. Most of the items on the menu are different: lake trout instead of salmon; whitefish … Continue reading
We’ve already seen one Alaska-service menu with a colorful cover like this one. Starting today, I’ll present four more. That previous menu showed St. Andrews Church, built on the shores of Lake Bennett, British Columbia in about 1899. Today’s and … Continue reading
This Alaska steamship dinner menu featured a painting of the same Lion’s Gate Bridge that was shown in a photo on a dining car menu a few days ago. The back cover advertises golfing in Jasper. Click image to download … Continue reading
Tomorrow we’ll be back aboard Alaska steamships, but today we’re in Jasper Park on Canadian National’s Continental. Mount Robson is in the background as, as the back cover of the menu notes, if we get off at Jasper we can … Continue reading