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The hotel depicted on the cover of this menu was the second to be named Hotel Vancouver. It opened in 1916 and was replaced by the current Hotel Vancouver in 1939. However, this undated dinner menu is even older than … Continue reading
Category Archives: Canadian Pacific
This unusual folder looks like a menu, but inside is filled with tiny type listing and briefly describing 76 different named salads. I’ve only heard of two of them: Nicoise and Waldorf. Several others may have Canadian Pacific connections, including … Continue reading
These two large (9″x12″) menus were used in the Chateau Frontenac, Canadian Pacific’s Quebec City hotel. This first is an eight-page lunch menu, whose inside front covers have photos showing tobogganing and skiing (or ski-ing, as the Canadian Pacific spelled … Continue reading
This menu advertises CP’s great ship in its heyday, when it was carrying a couple of trainloads of passengers between Liverpool and St. Johns, New Brunswick per five-day trip. The painting doesn’t has a signature because the bottom portion was … Continue reading
The cover painting of this menu is signed “L. Richmond,” which refers to Leonard Richmond (1889-1965), a British artist who painted trains and ocean liners for Canadian Pacific, though he preferred to do landscapes like this one when he was … Continue reading
This unusual dining car menu is undated, but from the inside decorations it is from sometime before 1938. I have a 1931 menu that offers a “Red brand” sirloin steak for $1.50 and a 1937 menu that lists it for … Continue reading
Yesterday we viewed several menus from the Chung collection that featured charcoal (or possibly pencil) drawings on the cover. A couple of them had several vertical bars in the lower righthand corner, but the one showing the Chateau Frontenac did … Continue reading
Perhaps as an economy measure, starting in around 1930 Canadian Pacific issued a series of menus that featured what appears to be pencil or charcoal drawings on the cover. We’ve already seen a dining car menu that featured the Empress … Continue reading
In 1930, Canadian Pacific put out a series of menus celebrating major industries in Canada, especially ones closely involved with the railway. Although each of the menus had cover paintings by Charles James Greenwood that wrapped around to the back … Continue reading
As noted here a couple of days ago, in 1929 Canadian Pacific acquired twenty 2-10-4 locomotives, which it called Selkirks, from Montreal Locomotive Works, the Canadian subsidiary of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO). At 78,000 pounds of tractive effort, these … Continue reading