In 1957, or possibly earlier, Canadian Pacific began featuring British artists on the covers of its Atlantic steamship menus. We previously seen a menu portraying Robert Burns. Today’s menu features William Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon, the birthplace of the famous actor … Continue reading
The photo on this menu cover is taken from the same spot as the photo on a Canadian Pacific booklet that I estimated was published in 1948. However, the locomotives in the photos are quite different. Where the locomotive on … Continue reading
The colorful map on the back of this brochure shows purple mountains, green valleys, blue rivers, a solid red line showing the route of the Canadian Pacific, and dotted red lines showing what must be hundreds of miles of trails. … Continue reading
We’ve already seen an Expression-series menu featuring the Chateau Frontenac from the Chung Collection. I managed to find this one for my collection with yesterday’s Royal Alexandra menu and is in both English and French. Like yesterday’s, this one has … Continue reading
The Royal Alexandra was Canadian Pacific’s hotel in Winnipeg. We’ve previously seen a 1931 dining car menu with the hotel pictured on an otherwise nondescript cover. Today’s menu cover is anything but nondescript. Click image to download a 2.4-MB PDF … Continue reading
This joint Canadian National/Canadian Pacific brochure advertises “really low summer fares” to seasides and resorts in eastern Canada. However, they don’t appear to be that low to me. The roundtrip fare from Toronto to St. Andrews, for example, is CAN$30.85, … Continue reading
I don’t collect airline menus, but this one was so pretty I couldn’t resist. When Canadian Pacific Airlines wasn’t using dining car menus, which it rarely did, it usually used menus with pictures of historic airplanes on the covers. However, … Continue reading
This 1928 dining car menu advertises winter cruises on Canadian Pacific steamships. During the summer, those ships served the Montreal-Liverpool route, but in the winter, when that route was too icy, the ships went elsewhere. We’ve previously seen a menu … Continue reading
The left panel of the “cover” of this 1912 brochure shows the S.S. Princess Victoria, which served Canadian Pacific’s “triangle” between Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle. The right panel shows Field, B.C., at the base of the one-time “big hill,” which … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover before on a menu from the Chung collection. As I pointed out then, Canadian Pacific ordered 18 dome-observation cars from the Budd Company, each named after a national or provincial park, and decorated the interiors with … Continue reading
