After closing the Place Viger hotel in 1935, Canadian Pacific didn’t own a hotel in its headquarters city until 1967, when it opened the Chateau Champlain in time for the Montreal Expo. This October 1966 dining car menu advertises the … Continue reading
In another good example of cross-advertising, this menu publicizes the Banff Indian Days festival to passengers aboard Canadian Pacific’s Great Lakes steamship Assiniboia (whose name itself is an effective advertisement for a mountain in the Canadian Pacific Rockies). The Assiniboia … Continue reading
Here’s a menu from the Chung collection that I had previously overlooked or ignored. The format is similar to a 1961 menu previously shown here, but the background color is teal instead of white. Click image to download a 4.6-MB … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s, this menu is hotel-sized, meaning about 7″x10-1/2″, compared with the dining-car-sized menus, which were 6-3/4″x9-1/2″. The cover photo occupies an unusually small portion of the front cover compared with dining car menus, so I doubt dining car patrons … Continue reading
This 1950 menu showing the Princess Kathleen sailing from Vancouver to Victoria was used in the Empress Hotel. It’s a little larger than CP dining car menus from 1950, so this picture may not have appeared on a dining car … Continue reading
In a classic example of cross-advertising, Canadian Pacific used this menu on a Toronto-Montreal pool train to promote its around-the-world cruises. CP’s ships in Atlantic service couldn’t operate between Montreal and Europe in the winter due to ice, so they … Continue reading
While searching for Canadian Pacific Alaska booklets on the Chung collection web site for yesterday’s post, I found a single Chung file that had 41 different menus in it. They were all for the Princess Louise, the largest of Canadian … Continue reading
This menu has exactly the same cover, front and back, as was used on a 16-page booklet from the Chung collection about the hotel. Strangely, there’s nothing on the front or back of either cover to indicate whether they are … Continue reading
For Canadian Pacific and Canadian National, “Alaska” meant southeast Alaska, also known in this booklet as the Alaska panhandle. Approximately half of this booklet is devoted to the steamship journey up the Inside Passage to Ketchikan, Juneau, and Skagway. The … Continue reading
This travel guide is nearly a hundred years old, yet it is amazing how little has changed in the Southeast Alaska journey that the booklet describes. The populations of many of the communities, including Wrangell, Ketchikan, and Skagway, have doubled … Continue reading
