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One of the stirring stories of the construction of the Canadian Pacific was the Reil Rebellion of 1885, in which … Continue reading
Category Archives: Canadian Pacific
The year 1927 was the 60th anniversary of Canadian confederation, and Canadian Pacific celebrated with a series of more than a dozen menus featuring some point in Canadian history — often having to do with the railroad or the more … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s menu, this one from my own collection is based on a lantern slide used by Sylvester Long for his slide shows promoting western Canada. However, the format of this 1927 menu is unlike any I’ve seen before. The … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen two menus — Indian scout and Blackfoot travois — that featured color photos of Indians on the cover with detailed write-ups by Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, who claimed to be a full-blooded Blackfeet Indian. In fact, … Continue reading
Today’s Canadian Pacific city menus from the Chung collection fall into two groups: two have a portrait orientation and three have a landscape orientation. Two of the landscape menus continue with the archway theme that was found in several of … Continue reading
Today’s menus from the Chung collection look different from yesterday’s, mainly because they have a yellow background instead of black. Yet like yesterday’s they each commemorate a city or, in one case, a region. While they also appear to view … Continue reading
In the mid-1920s, Canadian Pacific began to issue a series of menus apparently commemorating major cities (or in some cases, pairs of cities) along its route. In fact, they are actually not-so-subtle ads for Canadian Pacific operations in those cities. … Continue reading
The Chung collection menus today feature impressive paintings of sports activities in the Banff area. Two of them were painted by the same artist and could be considered the beginnings of a series. The other I’m including because it is … Continue reading
Today we have four more menus from the Chung collection that don’t appear to be a part of any series. The last two, however, do resemble one another, but it is probably a coincidence rather than by design. Click image … Continue reading
Today we have several nice menus from the Chung collection that don’t seem to be a part of any series. These are all breakfast menus dated 1926 and most of the cover illustrations are very attractive. Click image to download … Continue reading