With planes, trains, trucks, ships, hotels, and telecommunications, Canadian Pacific could justifiably call itself a more complete transportation system than anything in the United States, where antitrust laws prevented the railroads from controlling most other forms of transportation. While Canadian … Continue reading
This brochure encourages people to take one “of Canada’s two scenic dome trains,” the Canadian and Dominion, or a Canadian Pacific “D.C. 8 Jet Empress” to their convention, wherever that might be. Perhaps there were a lot of conventions in … Continue reading
This is almost identical to a brochure shown here previously, except the previous one was blue with black text and photos while this one is yellow with blue text and photos. Also, this one has a date: 1961, while the … Continue reading
This brochure is undated but it is from about 1960. The text brags that the Canadian Pacific offered Canada’s only “dome” cars (for some reason, the brochure always puts dome in quotation marks), so it would be from after 1955 … Continue reading
This 1957 menu for what was presumably a trip between Canada and Europe contrasts sharply with CP’s hotel and dining car menus. Since the price of meals was included in the fare, the menu offers table d’hôte only with five … Continue reading
While Canadian Pacific’s 1953 Rocky Mountain booklet covered the territory from Calgary to Hope, BC (with a page for Vancouver and Victoria), this one nominally goes from Winnipeg to Victoria. Yet all of Manitoba and Saskatchewan are covered in just … Continue reading
This booklet advertises Canadian Pacific territory from Winnipeg to Halifax. It has one page for the Manitoba lakes area, three-and-one-half pages for Ontario, two-and-one-half for Quebec, and one each for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the “island provinces,” Prince Edward … Continue reading
Here’s one more menu from the Chateau Lake Louise, this one dated September 11, 1949. The menu has the usual combination of five hot and three cold entrées on the table d’hôte side and nine hot and four cold on … Continue reading
This menu cover displays the newly renamed Mount Eisenhower, formerly known as Castle Mountain. The older name would be restored in 1979, either because people were forgetting about World War II or because they hadn’t forgotten their anger when the … Continue reading
The car in the photo looks old fashioned even for 1949. But I’m pretty sure it is a 1948 or 1949 Dodge Coronet. Dodge and other Chrysler products were late to follow the low lines pioneered by Studebaker and Kaiser … Continue reading
