This westbound edition of Canadian Pacific’s along-the-way booklet has some changes from the one presented yesterday. Page 3 has “an artist’s sketch” of CP’s latest hotel, Montreal’s Chateau Champlain, which opened in 1967. This illustration is the same one shown … Continue reading
While yesterday’s booklet presented information about the route of the Canadian from west to east, today’s has pretty much the same information but arranged from east to west. Unlike yesterday’s, this one is clearly dated 1963 on the back cover. … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a booklet like this from 1954. That was before the Budd-build Canadian had been delivered, so the cover image was a painting of the train at Morant’s curve near Banff. This edition was clearly after the train … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s booklet about the Banff Springs Hotel, this one is filled with warm, color illustrations (but no etchings) of people enjoying the chateau and its surroundings. The art is unsigned but the style is also similar to yesterday’s, so … Continue reading
A few days ago, I suggested that using the covers of its booklets and menus advertising its various hotels to publish a political statement claiming its moral superiority over rival Canadian National was poor marketing. Today’s booklet is an example … Continue reading
This booklet is from my own collection. Each of the “expression” booklets advertising Canadian Pacific hotels have a translucent sheet of paper separating the cover from the inside material and advertising the then-forthcoming Empress of Britain. To make this easier … Continue reading
Yesterday’s booklet about the York Hotel and its 1,000 rooms raises a question that I have mentioned before: why didn’t Canadian Pacific build a similar hotel in Montreal? Not only was Montreal its headquarters city, it was Canada’s second-largest city … Continue reading
The York Hotel was brand-new when this series of booklets and menus was published, having opened in June, 1929. The Canadian Pacific should have made this opening of the facility it billed as the “largest hotel in the British Empire” … Continue reading
Wikipedia says the 1916 Hotel Vancouver was built in an Italian Renaissance style. It was replaced in 1939 by an even grander chateau-style hotel. This contrasts with the Royal Alexandra, which was closed in 1967 and not replaced, leaving Canadian … Continue reading
The Chateau style of the Empress Hotel, featured in yesterday’s booklet, as well as the Chateau Frontenac, has always been a favorite. This contrasts sharply to the more blocky style of Winnipeg’s Royal Alexandra Hotel even though the Alexandra was … Continue reading
