Nicholas Morant’s photo of the Canadian on Stoney Creek Bridge adorns this menu that was used on board the SS Assiniboia, one of Canadian Pacific’s Great Lakes steamers that ferried passengers, cars, and some cargo between Port Arthur (Thunder Bay) … Continue reading
This summer timetable uses the same cover art as the 1961 edition and, like that version, is just 36 pages long. In contrast to the 1961 CN timetable, which was 68 pages, CP’s timetable had shrunk from the 68 pages … Continue reading
A Streamliner Memories reader who wishes to remain anonymous has offered these 1961 timetables for the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways. The covers provide an interesting contrast between the two operations. Click image to download a 26.4-MB PDF of … Continue reading
This menu wasn’t actually used by the Canadian Pacific, but “was furnished by ‘Canadian Pacific,’ the world’s greatest transportation system,” to the Royal City Stamp Club for use at the 1961 banquet of the Northwest Federation of Stamp Clubs. The … Continue reading
This menu has the familiar painting of the Canadian on Morant’s curve by Chesley Bonestell on the cover. But instead of the dignified (but inappropriate Old English font) “The Canadian” on the cover, as in the 1958 menu, this one … Continue reading
This 1965 brochure pictures and describes seven chateau-style hotels, three plainer urban hotels built in the early 20th century, and two motor lodges. The brochure also describes two high-rise modernist hotels then under construction, one in Edmonton scheduled to open … Continue reading
Yesterday’s booklet about the Palliser Hotel mentioned the Penthouse Lounge (now open only to gold-level guest and the Range Room (which has since been remodeled as the Oak Room). But in 1950, the hotel had a a much more modest … Continue reading
In the late 1850s, Irish geographer John Palliser surveyed the boundary between the United States and Canada between Lake Superior and the Pacific Ocean, exploring many Canadian river valleys along the way. Canadian Pacific named its Calgary hotel, which it … Continue reading
Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, had less than 50,000 residents when Canadian Pacific built the Saskatchewan Hotel in 1927. That population had doubled by the time this booklet was published in 1960, and it has doubled again since then, but … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific opened the Royal Alexandra Hotel in Winnipeg in 1906 and expanded it in 1914. Despite not following the chateau style of other CP hotels, the railway proudly proclaimed the Alexandra to be the most luxurious CP hotel yet. … Continue reading
