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Except for the cover and the date, this brochure is identical to the 1959 Canadian brochure. The cover art is in the same style as a series of booklets Canadian Pacific issued about its hotels in 1960 and 1961. Click … Continue reading
Category Archives: Canadian Pacific
We’ve previously seen brochures about the Canadian from 1955, 1958, and an undated one that is probably from 1956 or 1957. Today’s brochure is dated 1959 and covers much of the same material. Click image to download a 4.1-MB PDF … Continue reading
This brochure describes Canadian Pacific’s two premiere Rocky Mountain resorts in the equivalent of six pages of a booklet. We’ve previously seen a 1953 20-page booklet and a 1960 8-page booklet about the same resorts. The declining page count may … Continue reading
Today I have three menus, all for different days on the same voyage of the Empress of Britain as yesterday’s. The first has a photo of the Banff Springs Hotel that we’ve seen before in the upper left corner of … Continue reading
We’ve seen this photograph before in the upper left of the cover on a 1949 menu for the Chateau Lake Louise. Here the photograph is in the center of the cover, and the caption is in the Bodoni type face. … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover photograph before in the upper-left corner of 1950 and 1958 dining car menus. Today’s menu places the same photo in the horizontal center of the cover. Another difference is that the 1950 menu has “Canadian Pacific” … Continue reading
The front cover of this menu shows Sentinel Peak, which the caption says is visible from “the well-marked mountain trails that radiate from the Chateau.” The back cover shows the Chateau Lake Louise itself. The menu was used in the … Continue reading
Helen Hruska carefully saved programmes for each day’s activities on the Greenoch-Montreal voyage, so I owe it to her to post them here. Most of them list music, films, dances, and games held each late afternoon and evening of the … Continue reading
We saw this same menu cover a few days ago when it was used for the Gala Dinner on Helen Hruska’s Empress of Scotland trip to Scotland. Here it is used for the Gala Dinner on the return trip. I’m … Continue reading
Here is an Empress menu showing Windsor Castle. While yesterday’s menu was used on the Empress of Scotland on August 21, 1954, this one was used two days later, August 23. Click image to download a 893-KB PDF of this … Continue reading