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 port, Prince Rupert, which was the western terminus of the Grand Trunk Pacific, one of several railroads that went bankrupt and ended up as part of Canadian National Railways. The town was named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine who, among other things, was one of the founders of the Hudson’s Bay Company.

Prince George, meanwhile, was named for the town of that name located partway between Jasper and Prince Rupert. Prince George, in turn, was named for King George III, who had been a prince at one time and apparently Grand Trunk Pacific wanted to use prince names instead of king names.

Prince Rupert and Price George were built in England in 1909 and started Alaska service in 1910. However, the original Prince George was destroyed by a fire in 1945 and replaced with a new, larger Prince George in 1947. Obviously, the 1950 breakfast card mentioned above was used in the second Prince George.

In addition to fruits, cereals, and eggs, this menu offers the usual variety of breakfast foods found on many pre-war menus, including calf’s liver, pork sausages, various fish, ham, corned ox tongue, and something called emence of turkey.

The picture at the top of the menu represents Lake Atlin, which was accessible only on the White Pass and Yukon Route. To see the real lake, CN steamship passengers would have to go to Skagway, take the White Pass train to Carcross (caribou crossing), then a lake steamboat to the lake.