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It seems redundant to put a photo of a family being served lunch on the cover of a menu used in the same restaurant. Perhaps this menu cover was also used on Canadian Pacific dining cars, where it would make … Continue reading
Category Archives: Canadian Pacific
This 1948 brochure unfolds to the equivalent of eight pages of the 24-or–more page booklets CP used to advertise its Rocky Mountain resorts. We’ve already seen a 28-page along-the-way booklet with the same title and cover photo as this brochure … Continue reading
In 1940, the number of color photos in Canadian Pacific’s booklet crept up to 13 from 8 in 1939 and 1 in 1937. The front and back covers also use blue as a highlight color; this appears to be a … Continue reading
A few days ago I noted that the color photo on the back of the 1938 “Canadian Rockies” booklet was a sign of things to come. This edition has ten color photos, including full-page photos on both the front and … Continue reading
This 1938 menu was used on the Mountaineer, Canadian Pacific’s summer-only train from St. Paul to Vancouver via CP-subsidiary Soo Line. Despite being for a different train, the menu items offered are identical to those from yesterday’s Dominion menu. The … Continue reading
This menu was used on the Dominion, Canadian Pacific’s premiere train at the time. The cover painting was by Marius Hubert Robert (1885-1966), a French artist famous enough to have his biography on the French wikipedia, but not famous enough … Continue reading
Sometime during the 1930s, Canadian Pacific dropped the color paintings that had distinguished its resort booklets in the late 1920s and early 1930s. While the front cover of this booklet is a painting, it would be more accurate to call … Continue reading
This Canadian Pacific on-board stationery uses a typestyle that is often called Old English. That almost certainly dates it to before the introduction of the Canadian domeliner, and probably to the 1930s. Click image to download a PDF of this … Continue reading
The 1931 edition of yesterday’s 1929 booklet has been reduced from 12″x9″ to 8″x10″. It still contains nine color paintings, but none by Carl Rungius, who did three of the paintings in the 1929 edition. Instead, there are two each … Continue reading
This 1929 booklet has many black-and-white photographs, but its heart is the nine paintings printed in full color. These paintings were done by seven different artists: three by Carl Rungius (1869-1959) and one each by A. C. Leighton (1901-1965), Adam … Continue reading