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These two menus were used in the Banff Springs Hotel in 1956. One of them has a photo we have seen before on a Canadian Pacific dining car menu, so it is possible that the photo on the other was … Continue reading
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This lengthy, 1945 publication is filled with crisp, black-and-white photos, several of which we have seen in colorized versions on menu covers. The text tells more than anyone except a bored railway traveler would want to know about the many … Continue reading
This menu is undated, but page 2 advertises “short sea trips” on various CP princess liners. It specifically mentions the “magnificent, new and specially appointed sisterships Princess Joan and Princess Elizabeth” that did night service between Vancouver and Victoria. Those … Continue reading
Here’s a menu in Canadian Pacific’s trifold series that we haven’t seen before — and a second one that we have. Both were from the 1937 American Express Banner Tour that also went to Santa Fe and Los Angeles. Click … Continue reading
Between the Princess Alice, Princess Louise, and Princess Charlotte, Canadian Pacific had departures from Vancouver to Skagway every three to four days in the summer of 1936. The Charlotte also did two 11-day cruises that differed from ordinary trips (which … Continue reading
This unusual booklet was written by Katherine Hale, the pen name for Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin (1874-1956). Hale was something of a renaissance woman, being a poet, essayist, journalist, lecturer, and an opera singer. The text of this publication tells, … Continue reading
This fancy booklet is supposed to look like it was printed on wood, or at least wood-grained paper. It includes 17 color illustrations that are glued onto the pages. Click image to download an 8.7-MB PDF of this 36-page booklet. … Continue reading
A photo by Byron Harmon presented here yesterday showed a Soo Line observation car passing over a Canadian Pacific locomotive emerging from the lower spiral tunnel in the Canadian Rockies. The Soo Line car, I suggested, was part of the … Continue reading
Here are three more Byron Harmon real photo postcards that seem intriguing. First is a photo of a passenger train emerging from the lower spiral tunnel. Above it are some cars that appear to be part of the same train, … Continue reading
Here are some examples of Byron Harmon’s photos showing sights around Banff. All of these are hand colored; black-and-white versions of all of them exist but I only have the color versions. Click image to download a 225-KB PDF of … Continue reading