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St. Andrews in Scotland is known as the “home of golf,” and while the St. Andrews in New Brunswick was not named after the one in Scotland, someone decided to make it into a golf resort as well. They built … Continue reading
Category Archives: Canadian Pacific
Opening in 1906, Winnipeg’s Royal Alexandra Hotel was one of the first Canadian Pacific hotels to depart from the chateau style that characterized such hotels as the Frontenac and Banff Springs. As a result, although luxurious on the inside, it … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific built Place Viger to be its Montreal hotel in 1898. The lower floors also served as CP’s train station. The hotel closed in 1935, and for several decades the railway didn’t have a hotel in Montreal even though … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu cover before from the Chung collection. Today’s menu is from my own collection. The Chung menu was dated 1930 and this one is dated 1928. Both are dinner menus, so they allow us to see how … Continue reading
Here’s a menu we haven’t seen before in what I call the Fresco series, as the cover painting is designed to look like it was painted on a plaster wall. We’ve previously seen a menu in this series featuring winter … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu before from the Chung collection. That one was a “mid-day” menu for the Imperial, Canadian Pacific’s premiere year-round train. This one has the same ambiguously labeled Trans-Canada Limited menu as yesterday’s Snow Plow menu. Click image … Continue reading
Here’s another menu in the Confederation series that I didn’t find in the Chung collection. The cover compares an early locomotive-mounted wedge plow with a then-modern rotary snow plow. The back cover claims that “The development of the mechanical or … Continue reading
Canada became a nation in 1867. Fifty years later it was in the midst of a world war, so it waited until the 60th anniversary to have a major celebration. We’ve previously seen more than a dozen Canadian Pacific menus … Continue reading
At first glance, this undated menu appears to have a lot in common with yesterday’s: a cover featuring a Canadian Pacific Rocky Mountain resort with an undated dinner menu on an unnamed Alaska steamship inside. I dated yesterday’s menu to … Continue reading
This menu, which was used on a steamship to Alaska, offers a few mysteries. First, when was it issued? Second, who was Mark Triton (or Tritun), which seems to be the signature on the cover painting? And third, was this … Continue reading