Starting in 1933, Canadian Pacific and Canadian National pooled their train services between Toronto and Montreal and between Toronto and Ottawa, meaning they shared the costs and the revenues. We’ve seen pooled train menus before; we’ve seen Mount Eisenhower menus … Continue reading
These two menus are the same size as Canadian Pacific’s photo menus, but are made of different paper and have drawings on the covers. The paper must have a high acid content as it faded much more than CP’s usual … Continue reading
We’ve seen today’s first cover photo before on a 1941 dinner menu. I’m including it today mainly because it came with the next menu, which we haven’t seen before. Click image to download a 1.3-MB PDF of this menu. Both … Continue reading
Dated August 11, 1947, this menu is quite different from CP dining car menus. This is a contrast to the Banff Springs Hotel, which used many menus that, on the outside at least, were duplicates of ones used on the … Continue reading
The cover art on this menu is a painting by Alaska artist Nina Crumrine. Born in Indiana in 1889, Crumrine moved to Ketchikan, Alaska in 1923 with her six-year-old daughter Josephine. Nina painted Native Americans and Alaskan landscapes while Josephine … Continue reading
People weren’t supposed to take vacations in 1944, when this menu was issued, but the women shown on the terrace of the Banff Springs Hotel are in the uniforms of the Women’s Division of the Royal Canadian Air Force, so … Continue reading
Here’s one more menu from the 1940 American Express Banner tour, this one dated August 9. The cover is identical to a previous menu from a 1938 Banner tour. Click image to download a 1.4-MB PDF of this menu. These … Continue reading
This breakfast menu from an American Express Banner tour is dated August 8, 1940. The cover painting by Norman Wilkinson (who also painted the cover of this menu) is based on the famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Click image … Continue reading
We’ve seen this photograph before on a post-war menu. Here it is on a menu dated August 7, 1940; for the Americans who went on the American Express Banner tour for which this menu was used, this was a pre-war … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s, this menu shows Victoria’s Empress Hotel on the cover, but in a much more modern treatment. The back cover has a lengthy description of the hotel, noting it has 570 rooms and that the hotel and grounds cover … Continue reading
