We’ve previously seen a menu whose cover is almost identical to this booklet. Nothing on the two covers discloses whether they are a booklet or a menu. We’ve also seen a booklet similar to this one that has Lake Louise … Continue reading
In the late 1920s, Canadian Pacific owned and operated a dozen major hotels and lodges, all of which are pictured on the back of this menu. We’ve previously seen menus like this for six of those hotels; this brings it … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s first Empress of Japan made its first revenue voyage in April, 1891, and its last one in July, 1922, thus providing more than 31 years of service during which it made 315 trans-Pacific trips. During two of those … Continue reading
Here are two more menus from the transportation history series that we haven’t seen before. The first shows an 18th-century man-of-war ship. It was used on the Empress of Canada in August, 1965. Click image to view and download a … Continue reading
The tracks that the Puffing Billy operated on passed in front of George Stephenson’s boyhood home, which still exists as a national historic site. I bicycled by this house once and took a tour before enjoying hot chocolate and scones. … Continue reading
This menu clearly has the same theme of historic transportation devices as the ones shown in the past several days, but it is a breakfast card instead of a dinner folder. The penny-farthing or high-wheeler bicycle was briefly popular before … Continue reading
According to Wikipedia, “Puffing Billy is the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive,” having been built in 1813. The back of this menu notes that, “In the early days of railways, . . . a rate of twenty miles an hour … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu cover before but I’m presenting it again because this one is from the same voyage of the Empress of Canada as yesterday’s menu. This one is dated August 17, which would have been the fourth night … Continue reading
In about 1961 Canadian Pacific began using a series of menus featuring historic transportation technologies. Today’s menu shows an artist’s conception of a flying machine designed by Leonardo daVinci in about 1486. Click image to download a 500-KB PDF of … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen Canadian Pacific Empress menus from 1957 celebrating British artists such as Shakespeare, John Constable, and Robert Burns. Here are another menu in the same series that was collected by Vancouver Canadian Pacific fan Wallace Chung. Click image … Continue reading
