We’ve previously seen booklets advertising Canadian Pacific’s chain of hotels from 1947, 1949, and 1957. This one is from 1937. Click image to download a 4.7-MB PDF of this 24-page booklet. The postwar booklets all list the hotels in geographic … Continue reading
Chief George Kian (sometimes spelled Kyan) was born in the 1880s and died in 1955. At some point, he commissioned this pole which consists of a crane on top, a thunderbird in the middle, and a brown bear — his … Continue reading
Here’s a menu featuring the Banff Springs Hotel on the cover that was actually used at the Banff Springs Hotel. As far as I can tell, this particular menu cover was used exclusively at the hotel and not on Canadian … Continue reading
This menu advertises Toronto’s Royal York Hotel, the largest in the CP hotel chain and, in fact, the largest in the British Empire at the time. The menu was used in the dining car of CP’s premiere passenger train, the … Continue reading
The Banff Springs Hotel is an incredible place. It’s chateau-style architecture would look completely out of place in a U.S. national park, but somehow it fits in Canada’s Rocky Mountain National Park (later called Banff). This booklet describes many of … Continue reading
The description of trail riding on the back of this menu doesn’t say so, but the mountain on the cover is Mount Assiniboine, which would place these riders in the British Columbia provincial park of that name, which was created … Continue reading
Although the front of this menu effectively advertises the golf course associated with the Banff Springs Hotel, the text on the back says nothing about golf. Instead, it claims that Scottish fur traders who first came to the Canadian Rockies … Continue reading
H. Armstrong Roberts (1883-1947) was an American photographer who started Retrofile, one of the first stock photo companies. Today, his photos are owned by Getty Images. Roberts apparently spent a few days at Lake O’Hara and Getty has posted several … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a circa 1929 menu with a painting of a hula dancer on the cover. This cover is less colorful but, I am sure, no less fascinating to the members of the Massachusetts-Rhode Island Knights Templar traveling to … Continue reading
This dining car menu is dated July 17, 1934 and was used on the same tour of the Massachusetts-Rhode Island Knights Templar as yesterday’s menu. Breakfast included sliced peaches; cereals with cream; a choice of salmon, lamb chop, ham, eggs, … Continue reading
