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Here’s a 1949 update of the Gracious Living booklet presented here a couple of days ago. This one uses a blue velvet cloth on the cover to give a feeling of elegance. Click image to download a 6.1-MB PDF of … Continue reading
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From Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to Victoria, British Columbia, this booklet describes the many hotels owned by Canadian Pacific in the late 1940s. I count eighteen of them, not including four lodges and three tea houses in the Rockies that were … Continue reading
Although the 1937 booklet presented here yesterday frequently used the word “gracious,” this postwar booklet is the first CP advertising I’ve found to use the phrase “gracious living.” Although this term has been around for a few centuries, in the … Continue reading
This 1937 booklet uses the words “gracious” and “luxurious” four times each with reference to the Banff Springs Hotel and Chateau Lake Louise. CP is clearly trying to convey that these are first-class operations and not rustic camps of some … Continue reading
Although this menu is only slightly larger in size than the breakfast menus shown a couple of days ago, Canadian Pacific has substituted photos for paintings, simplified the interior design, and dedicated the back cover to describing the subject of … Continue reading
This menu has a completely different format from Canadian Pacific menus we’ve seen previously. While most are folded once to about 6-3/4″ x 9″ in size, this one is folded twice to about 6″ x 7″. I’ve seen one other … Continue reading
Malahat Drive was and remains a scenic route north from Victoria up the east side of Vancouver Island. This painting is by William Thurston Topham (1888-1966), who was born in England but moved to Canada when he was 23. While … Continue reading
While the work of W.J. Phillips, who painted the cover of yesterday’s menu, is well known (or at least well documented) today, today’s artist, Gordon Gillespie, is not. One web site speculates that he may have been a staff artist … Continue reading
The Canadian Pacific menus today and in the next three days were all issued in 1937 and all have paintings whose artists are identified on the covers. Of them, W.J. (for Walter Joseph) Phillips (1884-1963) was probably the most famous. … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover before on a 1955 Mountaineer dinner menu. We’ve seen the inside of this menu before in yesterday’s patriotic menu, which is an identical buffet dinner menu to this one. I include it here under the theory … Continue reading