Here are two menus whose photos we’ve seen before. As with the Indian Matron menus shown here a couple of days ago, these two are slightly different: the first is framed by Art Nouveauish lines and the words “Royal York” … Continue reading
Skiing was a new enough sport in 1941 that Canadian Pacific felt it was necessary to hyphenate the word, probably so people would know how to pronounce it. A previous CP menu, which I estimate to be from 1939 or … Continue reading
Today’s menu has the same photo on the cover as menus shown here a couple of days ago, but instead of merely advertising the Chateau Lake Louise, this menu was actually used at the chateau. Specifically, it was used for … Continue reading
The painting on this menu was by Mildred Thornton, who was better known for her paintings of Indians or, as they are known in Canada today, First Nations. Born in Ontario but later a resident of Vancouver, she also painted … Continue reading
Today we have three different menus with nearly the same cover showing the painting of “An Indian Matron” by Nicholas de Grandmaison. We’ve previously seen a 1941 breakfast menu with this cover marked for the Dominion. Click image to download … Continue reading
Today we have two menus with the same front cover but slightly different insides. The first menu is undated, but the cover photo was used on a 1939 booklet advertising a color photo contest, so I suspect it is from … Continue reading
This menu gives no explanation of what an Indian in Sioux regalia is doing at the Banff Springs Hotel, but of course, none is needed: that’s what the tourists, conditioned by cowboy-and-Indian movies, wanted to see. In fact, authentic Blackfeet … Continue reading
Marked for the Mountaineer, our first menu offered beverages on the left side and a la carte on the right. Table d’hôte meals were listed on a separate insert, which is included. The table d’hôte offerings included fruit, chicken, or … Continue reading
In 1939, Canadian Pacific issued a poster advertising skiing in Quebec featuring what appears to be a studio photo (there’s no trace of snow anywhere) of a woman with ski goggles and ski poles. Someone then overlaid a version of … Continue reading
Here are four menus from the Chung collection that might be members of some series, but we don’t have enough examples to know for sure. The first two, however, do look pretty similar. Click image to download a 2.2-MB PDF … Continue reading
