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We’ve previously seen a Skyline coffee shop dinner menu from 1964 that had an image of the Canadian along the Bow River in Banff National Park. This breakfast menu is from 1970 and shows the train along one of the … Continue reading
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Unusually, this menu has two photos on the cover, as if some graphics artist didn’t like the “wasted” white space on some other Canadian Pacific menu covers. The back cover has several paragraphs about Indian days followed by a one-sentence … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s menu, this one is not for the hotel on the cover but for the Empress of France. Dated August 15 (while yesterday’s was dated August 12), the meals are a little different. Click image to download a 1.8-MB … Continue reading
We’ve seen a painting of the Chateau Frontenac on a 1940 menu. The two views are from almost exactly the same angle but this photo is more of a close-up. Click image to download a 1.7-MB PDF of this menu. … Continue reading
Katy’s Cove was a private beach in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, open only to guests of Canadian Pacific’s Algonquin Resort. The resort was also known for its golf course and salt water baths. Click image to download a 1.2-MB PDF … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific added the Empress of Britain to its fleet in 1956 in response to competition from Cunard, which had put a new ship, the Saxonia, into Montreal-Liverpool service in 1954. Launched by Queen Elizabeth II herself (who was not, … Continue reading
We’ve seen both of these covers before. The first, showing Mount Eisenhower, was used on an undated pool train dinner menu. The second, showing a RCMP Mountie on horseback, was used on another 1951 Mountaineer dinner menu. Click image to … Continue reading
Here’s a beautiful menu cover we haven’t seen before, nor have I seen any other menus that would be in this same series. Although the interior of the 1951 Mountaineer menu is the same orientation as other Canadian Pacific menus, … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu cover before on a 1949 Mountaineer dinner menu. Here are two more uses of it, one on a 1950 lunch menu and one on a 1951 breakfast menu. Click image to download a 1.2-MB PDF of … Continue reading
This spectacular photo of the Banff Springs Hotel shows it in relation to its golf course, the Bow River, and nearby mountains. Although some menus with this cover might have been used in the hotel itself, these two were both … Continue reading