James Wolfe died leading the British at the Battle of Quebec in the French and Indian War. Despite the loss of their leader, the British won the battle, leading France to cede Quebec to Britain. Wolfe had been born and … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen empress menus featuring William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and John Constable. To this artist series we can add today’s menu honoring Oliver Goldsmith, an eighteenth-century Irish writer whose play, She Stoops to Conquer, is still often performed today. … Continue reading
This menu’s cover photo with a young woman precariously perched next to the river had also been used on a 1949 menu from the Chateau Lake Louise and a 1957 menu used on the Empress of Britain. This one differs … Continue reading
As marked on the cover, this menu was used at the Banff Springs Hotel. It is a little larger than CP dining car menus of that period: about 8″x11″ vs. 6-3/4″x9-3/4″. However, the same photograph was used on a 1950 … Continue reading
This is an example of what I call the Bodoni series of menus because the title of the photograph is printed in all-capital Bodoni letters on the front. The Bodoni series closely resembles the Script series, such as this one … Continue reading
The rather boring but heavy-duty cover of this odd-sized (approx. 4-5/8″x9-5/8″) booklet hides the fact that it contains many beautiful photos inside, and in particular four in full color, plus one color painting. Canadian Pacific was one of the first … Continue reading
As previously noted here, the Dominion Atlantic Railway had been a wholly owned but independently operated subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific since 1911. The railway served Nova Scotia, which had once been occupied by French-speaking Acadians. During the French & … Continue reading
The Chung collection has a Canadian Pacific booklet about resorts in the Canadian Rockies dated 1906. Between the Chung collection and archive.org are annual editions of the booklet from 1910 to 1933. From 1911 to 1923, these have a color … Continue reading
This is a strange booklet that really comes in two parts. First is a cover that is about 6-1/2″x9.2″. The fine print says the cover was printed in Canada. Second is the interior portion which is about 12″x9.2″. It was … Continue reading
I’ve previously told how husband-wife artist team Martin & Flora DeMuth talked Canadian Pacific into letting them go on at least 15 cruises in exchange for doing artwork and (in Martin’s case) giving lectures for those cruises. Indeed, it is … Continue reading
