Newcastle Island is located in the Georgia Strait near Nanaimo. Coal was discovered there in 1849 and the island became a source of fuel and the site of limestone quarries. In 1930, the coal was mostly exhausted and Canadian Pacific … Continue reading
Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park is entirely roadless, and the only way to get to the site of the photo on these menu covers in winter was to ski at least 15 miles. Nowadays, helicopter skiing is possible, but wasn’t available … Continue reading
Today we have two menus featuring a photo of a fly fisherman standing in the Spray River just before it dumps into the Bow River. Today, all fishing in Banff National Park rivers is catch-and-release, with no live bait and … Continue reading
This 1951 menu advertises the New Brunswick golf course and, indirectly, Canadian Pacific’s Algonquin resort. The back of the menu says that the Algonquin sported an 18-hole golf course plus a 9-hole course, but only the 18-hole course survives today. … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover before on a pool train menu. Neither this menu nor the pool train menu are dated, but the prices match yesterday’s 1950 lunch menu. This could be from 1949, but prices went up in 1951 so … Continue reading
We’ve seen this photo before on a 1955 Alaska steamship menu cover, but the background on the cover was white instead of blue and the photo was in the upper righthand portions of the cover instead of the upper lefthand … Continue reading
Here’s another menu with a photo — different from the one on the menus shown a few days ago — of the gardens around Canadian Pacific’s Empress Hotel. This menu was actually used at the Empress Hotel and is a … Continue reading
This dining car menu features the second ship to go by the name Empress of Canada. The first was built in 1920 and sunk during World War II by an Italian submarine when it was carrying, among others, hundreds of … Continue reading
It is possible that the people in the canoe are the same couple who appeared strolling through flowers on the cover of a 1939 menu. If so, the man has taken off his blazer and rolled up the sleeves of … Continue reading
Instead of the Canadian Rockies, this menu features a view of Toronto Union Station and the Royal York Hotel. “The Canadian Pacific Royal York Hotel is a social and commercial centre that dominates the downtown sky-line and overlooks Lake Ontario,” … Continue reading
