Here we have another black-and-white photo on the cover of a Dominion menu, this one for lunch. The lamb-chops test tells us that, like yesterday’s menu, this one is from 1932-1935. Click image to download a 1.4-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a menu with a colorful painting of a passenger train passing in front of Mt. Stephen (named after one of the railway’s founders) and over an entrance to one of the spiral tunnels. The black-and-white photo on … Continue reading
The cover of this breakfast menu features the Chateau Lake Louise and even has a version of the Canadian Pacific logo made for the Chateau. But the menu was used on the Dominion, the railway’s premiere train from 1931 until … Continue reading
The top of this menu cover is a painting of Victoria’s Empress Hotel, which was no doubt the destination of at least a few of the travelers on the Imperial, the train on which this dinner menu was used. Of … Continue reading
Here’s the dinner menu that went with yesterday’s breakfast menu. Inside, it has three sheets of paper inserted held in with string. Two of the larger sheets have separate pages for beverages and food (in both English and French) and … Continue reading
In the 1970s, Canadian Pacific used this extremely boring menu cover. Only 5 inches wide but more than 11 inches tall, the menu had plenty of room on the inside, but unfortunately the offerings were as boring as the cover. … Continue reading
Yesterday’s lunch menu pictured the Princess of Vancouver but was used on the Princess Marguerite. Today we have breakfast and dinner menus from the latter ship. The breakfast menu is the only one with a date, but they were from … Continue reading
Built in 1955, the Princess of Vancouver carried people, automobiles, trucks, and railcars to and from Vancouver Island. At various times in her history, she connected Comox with Powell River, Nanaimo with Vancouver, and Victoria with Seattle. Click image to … Continue reading
Launched in 1950 and entering service in 1951, the Princess of Nanaimo carried up to 1750 people and two decks of automobiles between downtown Vancouver and Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island. A 1958 strike shut down Canadian Pacific’s ferry services for … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s dome-observation cars were known as Park cars because they were all named after Canadian national or provincial parks. Each car was also decorated with murals depicting the named park by a Canadian artist, some of whose paintings appeared … Continue reading
