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I have three menus today with a winter photo of Canadian Pacific’s Quebec City hotel that I don’t think we’ve seen before. The first is a 1946 lunch menu that was used on the CN-CP pool trains between Montreal and … Continue reading
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Canadian Pacific built a lodge at Emerald Lake in 1902 and it still exists, although the current lodge appears to have expanded considerably from what is pictured on this menu cover. Of course, the lodge was closed in 1945 due … Continue reading
Emerald Lake was discovered by an early guide named Thomas Wilson. Wilson got his start working as an assistant for A.B. Rodgers, who surveyed the Canadian Pacific route over the Rockies. Wilson discovered and named two different lakes Emerald Lake, … Continue reading
It’s October, 1945, and the war is officially over. But that may not have been true when this menu was designed, as the back cover speaks of the war in the present tense. The recreationists shown on the front cover … Continue reading
The painting that covers the front of this menu is based on a photograph taken of the pounding of Canadian Pacific’s last spike in British Columbia. The hammer was wielded by Donald Smith, one of the chief financiers of the … Continue reading
We’ve seen this painting by Nicholas de Grandmaison before on a 1938 menu and a 1943 menu. Today’s menu is a 1944 lunch menu; like the other two, it has Art Nouveauish borders and script typeface. Click image to download … Continue reading
We’ve seen this painting by Nina Crumrine before on a 1947 dinner menu that identified the subject as a “Canadian Indian.” Today’s menus more narrowly define the subject as a “Stoney Indian.” The Nakoda tribe is closely related to the … Continue reading
In 1966, Captain Kirk first called outer space “the final frontier,” but in 1944 the last frontier, according to Canadian Pacific, was air travel. In 1941 and 1942, CP had purchased ten “bush” airlines that served remote parts of northern … Continue reading
Although the three menus featured today all have the Empress Hotel on the cover, they were all used on Canadian Pacific dining cars, not in the hotel. And once again we have the menu in two different styles, one with … Continue reading
We’ve seen this colorized photo before on a 1941 dinner menu, but the first menu today shows the same distinctive characteristics — Art Nouveauish border and script type — that we saw in yesterday’s menu and the Indian Matron menus … Continue reading