This patriotic menu observes the fact that “For the first time in our peacetime history, Canadian sailors, soldiers and airmen are on active duty overseas,” meaning in Korea. While the Korean War had ended by the time this 1954 menu … Continue reading
This 1954 dinner menu was, like yesterday’s lunch menu, used on the Mountaineer. This train was effectively a secondary train to the Dominion serving the Twin Cities-Vancouver market over the Soo Line. Click image to download a 1.6-MB PDF of … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen this menu cover on a 1961 menu furnished by Canadian Pacific for a private club. This particular menu, however, was really used on a train, specifically, the Mountaineer in 1954. Click image to download a 1.7-MB PDF … Continue reading
At first glance, this looks like Chesley Bonestell’s painting of the Canadian going around what would later be known as Morant’s curve after the Canadian Pacific photographer, Nicholas Morant. In fact, it appears this illustration precedes Bonestell’s and the Canadian … Continue reading
This menu cover shows Cascade Mountain, a 9,386-foot peak, from the terrace of the Banff Springs Hotel. The menu was used for a luncheon of Alpha Chi Omega, which used to be called a sorority but now elects to call … Continue reading
The islands between the mainland near Vancouver (Tsawassen) and Vancouver Island (Schwartz Bay) are so thick that ferries between them must make an S-turn between Mayne Island and Galiano Island. This is called Active Pass and is depicted on the … Continue reading
Someone rode the Princess Marguerite (second of her name) in the Seattle-Victoria-Vancouver triangle on August 13, 1952 and collected this menu as a souvenir. Although the menu calls this a “palatial new” ship, it was actually four years old at … Continue reading
This dinner menu was used in the Banff Springs Hotel on August 11, 1952. From the cover photo, it appears that the hotel’s Mount Stephen Hall was once used as a comfortable lobby and meeting place for guests, while today … Continue reading
This menu was used in the Banff Springs Hotel in 1952. With a larger kitchen, hotels could offer a wider selection of foods than dining cars, and the table d’hôte side of this menu has ten different entrées, among which … Continue reading
In June, 1940, the masons held their national convention in Los Angeles, and the Mizpah Temple from Fort Wayne, Indiana elected to return home on a “special train” via Vancouver, B.C. This dinner menu was used on that return trip. … Continue reading
