The large picture on the cover of this menu shows Mt. Stephen towering over the Kicking Horse River with a Canadian Pacific passenger train coming down the 2.2 percent grade toward Field, British Columbia. The back cover mentions that a … Continue reading
Published in 1928, this 60-page booklet describes the train trip from Calgary to Vancouver with ferry to Victoria and Seattle. It also manages to advertise Canadian Pacific trains and its fourteen hotels throughout Canada plus eight bungalow camps in the … Continue reading
This postcard folder was never posted and has no date. However, one of the pictures shows what appears to be a semi-streamlined steam locomotive, probably a Royal Hudson. Since these locomotives were built in 1938, the folder must have been … Continue reading
This postcard folder was mailed from Vancouver, BC, to Portland, Oregon in 1928. Because of the way the cover is attached to the fold-out cards, I had to include two copies of the first page, so the PDF ends up … Continue reading
This brochure encourages people to hold conventions at one of Canadian Pacific’s hotels in the Rockies or Vancouver, BC. There’s no date, but it mentions the Trans-Canada Limited, which operated from 1919 to 1931. It also has a photo of … Continue reading
This collection of 20 hand-colored postcards was issued by the Gowen Sutton Company of Vancouver, BC, no doubt with the cooperation of the Canadian Pacific as most of the photos are of CPR trains, tracks, and hotels. Frank Gowen preferred … Continue reading
George Stephen and Donald Smith were the two primary financiers behind construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the nation honored them by naming prominent peaks in the Canadian Rockies after them. Both were made peers of the British Empire … Continue reading
In 1965, Canadian Pacific still advertised train travel to families using a 16-page brochure originally designed when the streamlined Canadian was introduced in in the mid-1950s. But it also took advantage of the sexual revolution to advertise the “romance of … Continue reading
Featuring Lake Louise on the cover, this menu, like the previous two, was used on a Great Lakes steamship, in this case the same Assiniboia as in day-before-yesterday’s menu. While yesterday’s menu was for dinner, this and the previous Assiniboia … Continue reading
The cover of this menu shows the Countess of Dufferin, the first locomotive in Manitoba (and, therefore, all of western Canada). The back of the menu carefully says the locomotive is “labelled C.P.R. No. 1.” In fact, as the Canadian … Continue reading
