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The ship pictured on this dining car menu cover would not go into service until almost a year after this menu was used for a “Through the Wonderland of the West” tour. This would be the second Canadian Pacific ship … Continue reading
Category Archives: Canadian Pacific
This menu features the first of 36 2-10-4 locomotives built for the Canadian Pacific. The Santa Fe Railway, which pioneered this wheel arrangement, called them Texas locomotives, but Canadian Pacific called them Selkirks. Click image to download a 796-KB PDF … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a menu with the same cover theme as yesterday’s booklets. Here are several more from the Chung collection. Each of the menus (and booklets) feature a Canadian Pacific hotel on the front cover and smaller pictures of … Continue reading
In the late 1920s, Canadian Pacific was feeling besieged by the government-owned Canadian National, which had declared itself to be “the people’s railway.” Canadian Pacific responded that its trains, steamships, hotels, and telegraph made it “pre-eminently the expression of a … Continue reading
Although my focus is on dining car menus, these Chung collection menus used on the Canadian Pacific steamships are so pretty that I wanted to include them as well. Since these steamship cruises were advertised on yesterday’s dining car menus, … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific steamships had regular summer schedules between Canada and Europe or Australia, but they also went on various cruises in the winter, when ocean travel in northern hemisphere was less pleasant. These 1928 through 1932 menus from the Chung … Continue reading
Today’s menus both have covers painted by Gordon Fraser Gillespie (1891-1965), an artist who worked on commission to CP starting in 1913 and eventually became a full-time CP artist. In 1948, he was placed in charge of all commercial art … Continue reading
The first two of today’s menus from the Chung collection are dated 1928. The first two resemble one another enough that they could be considered part of a series. Click image to download a 8.2-MB PDF of this menu. Click … Continue reading
This small — roughly 6-1/2″x7-1/2″ — breakfast menu was issued in 1928. The front cover is supposed to illustrate was western Canada was like before the coming of the railroad, while on the back cover the Canadian Pacific modestly takes … Continue reading
Canada’s parliament building in Ottawa was largely destroyed by fire in 1916, and rebuilt with some differences from the original. The cover of this menu from the Chung collection shows both the old (in the larger picture) and the new … Continue reading