Although this shows the Hotel Vancouver on the front, it is actually a 1939 dining car menu for the Mountaineer. While we’ve seen plenty of menus for the Royal York, Frontenac, Banff Springs, and Lake Louise hotels, one featuring the … Continue reading
The cover painting is obviously meant to be a dramatic rendition of the York Hotel at night, so it seems incongruous that it is on a breakfast menu. Of course, the railroads typically printed the covers first and later added … Continue reading
Here’s a beautiful, if somewhat aged, menu advertising Canadian Pacific’s Alaska steamship service. This 1931 breakfast menu wasn’t used on the ship, however; it was for a special train carrying the “second annual coast to coast tour” sponsored by the … Continue reading
“In 1931, the great White Empresses of the Canadian Pacific fleet will be joined by the Empress of Britain,” this dining car menu proudly announces. The second of three Canadian Pacific ships of that name, the ship was the first … Continue reading
This mid-day menu used on the Dominion shows the Empress Hotel in Victoria on the front cover, and a dozen different Canadian Pacific hotels (one of them being the Empress) on the back cover. The Dominion began operating in 1931. … Continue reading
As opposed to dining car menus that merely picture Lake Louise, this menu was actually used at the Chateau Lake Louis on August 21, 1928, and as such it has a much larger selection than would be found on a … Continue reading
Contrary to the implication of the cover, the Chateau St. Louis was not a Canadian Pacific hotel somewhere in Quebec but was the governor’s house in what is now Quebec City when Quebec was known as New France. Originally built … Continue reading
The back of this menu has a lengthy description of the cover photo written by Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, who claimed to be a full-blooded Blackfoot Indian chief. In fact, as noted for a previous Canadian Pacific menu, he … Continue reading
This 94-year-old booklet has numerous black-and-white (with yellow tinting) photos of and many pages of text about Banff, Lake Louise, Yoho, and Glacier parks. A couple of pages each on hunting, fishing, and motoring around the Rockies are followed by … Continue reading
This brochure’s cover describes the Canadian as “Canada’s only dome-equipped streamliner.” But Canadian Pacific owned 36 dome cars and needed only half of them for the Canadian. The other CP train with dome cars — the Dominion — mixed streamlined … Continue reading
