Here’s the Chesley Bonestell painting of the Canadian on a menu made larger (allowing less cropping of the painting) by the addition of an extra flap on the right (as seen from the cover side). This menu is undated, but … Continue reading
This menu with a painting of the Empress of France on the cover was actually used on the Empress of France in June, 1956. Like the Empress of Canada, the Empress of France was originally a duchess, in this case … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a … Continue reading
These two menus were used on the same special train for the Southland Life Insurance Company to Banff. We’ve seen the photographs on both covers before, so I’m including them together. Click image to download a 1.7-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
The Columbia Icefield is roughly halfway between Jasper and Lake Louise, so both Canadian Pacific and Canadian National passengers could take bus tours to the glacier. This menu says the glacier covered 150 square miles; Wikipedia says it covers 125 … Continue reading
This Canadian Pacific menu, with its diagonal photographs, is a style I haven’t seen before. Dated May 30, 1955, it says it was used on a “special train” for a Southland Life Insurance Company trip to Banff. Click image to … Continue reading
This is a slight different, and slightly older, version of a booklet I’ve shown here before. The differences are small, but one of them is a mistake in a map on page 2 that reverses the locations of Vancouver and … Continue reading
These menus are dated June 20 and June 22, 1954, which puts them midway through the Empress of Scotland‘s seven-day voyage from Liverpool to Montreal. The Empress was launched in 1930 as the Empress of Japan, but of course the … Continue reading
Here are two more menus which, like the menus shown in the past three days, are dated July 11, 1954 and have the same dinner offerings. We’ve also seen both of the cover photos on other menus. Click image to … Continue reading
This menu has the same photograph as one of yesterday’s menus, but that one had a white border around the sides and top of the photo while this one prints the photo up to the edges of the menu cover. … Continue reading
