We’ve seen this cover painting before on a 1943 menu. This one was used on the same American Express Banner Tour of the West as yesterday’s, and is dated July 8, three days after yesterday’s. Since the Dominion required four … Continue reading
When Canadian Pacific opened Toronto’s Royal York Hotel in 1929, it was the largest hotel in the British Empire with 1,048 rooms. This dining car menu, which was used on a 1938 American Express “Banner Tour of the West,” says … Continue reading
This completes Canadian Pacific’s series of domecar timetables in which the exteriors portray two seasons of the year. Unlike previous editions in the series, however, the number of pages of this one has been reduced from 36 to 28 pages. … Continue reading
As shown in the April 1967 timetable, Canadian Pacific continued the domecar theme started in the October 1966 timetable, only with spring & summer pictures outside of the domes. With this one, that theme continues with new fall & winter … Continue reading
In the fall of 1966, Canadian Pacific thankfully replaced its black timetable covers with ones featuring a magical scene in one of its dome cars which is based on one interior photo but in which the exterior is half in … Continue reading
In Fall, 1963, Canadian Pacific issued a timetable with dramatically redesigned cover that replaced the company’s traditional yellow background with a pretty picture in the foreground with one that was simply black with “Canadian Pacific” in script. This was much … Continue reading
The photo on the cover of this 1955 Mountaineer dinner menu shows “wood’n’wooly” skiers (wood skis, wool clothes) near Banff. But a caption on the back also notes there is fine skiing near Revelstoke and on Grouse Mountain near Vancouver. … Continue reading
One more dinner menu from someone’s 1950 Alaska steamship journey. This one features a cover painting by Carl Rungius. Rungius was a German painter who immigrated to the United States in 1896 to specialize in wildlife art, then opened a … Continue reading
Here’s another dinner menu from the Alaska steamship service. The inside front cover has a photo of a herd of caribou swimming in the Yukon River and one of a flower garden in Skagway. Click image to download a 1.4-MB … Continue reading
Here’s a dinner menu from what was probably the same Alaska steamship trip as yesterday’s tiffin menu. The cover proudly features what is no doubt Canadian Pacific’s flagship train, the Dominion, in the Canadian Rockies. The inside front cover has … Continue reading
