Canadian Pacific Airlines generally had its own menus that were very different from its dining car menus. But several of these menus from the Chung collection, whose covers were usually found in dining cars, were used on a few special … Continue reading
Our first menu today has a familiar photo of Mt. Eisenhower on the cover. We’ve seen this photo on a cover that was otherwise white, blue and yellow, and there are even more variations out there. It’s possible that Canadian … Continue reading
The Hudson’s Bay Company found coal near Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, and built this little tower, which contained cannon and other defense supplies, in the 1850s to defend its operations. It is a timber-framed building (built without nails) and still … Continue reading
This Banff Springs Hotel lunch menu is dated July 23, 1948. At that time, Canadian Pacific kept its mountain hotels and some other tourist lodgings open only in the summers. Today, of course, they are open year round, with Banff … Continue reading
“First railway company to own and operate its steamships across Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Canadian Pacific is a pioneer in the air, too,” says the back of this menu in somewhat clipped fashion. In 1948, it was operating Douglas DC-3s, … Continue reading
The gigantic Banff Springs Hotel, which had 600 rooms when this 1948 menu was issued (more than 750 today), looks like a toy in this expansive photo taken from the top, or near the top, of Sanson’s Peak. To take … Continue reading
Here’s another in this series of Canadian Pacific Alaska steamship menus that uses a photo we haven’t seen before of the Olympic Mountains as seen from Vancouver Island. The steamship in the photo is the Princess Victoria, which Canadian Pacific … Continue reading
We’ve seen this photo before on dining car menus, but the bottom half of the cover was yellow instead of cyan and the cover also had a brief description of the image. Both have longer, but far from identical, captions … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu cover before on a 1950 Alaska steamship menu. Page 2 of the two menus are different, however: where the other menu had photos of the White Pass & Yukon Railroad, this one has Dawson City and … Continue reading
Though the cover has a photo of Lake Louise, this — like the menus of the previous few days — was for a Canadian Pacific steamship in Alaska service. The trip from Vancouver to Skagway took four nights, but I … Continue reading
