This children’s booklet tells the history of Canadian travel in general and Canadian Pacific in particular through sixteen six-line poems and accompanying sketches. A card is glued to the inside back cover that contains a “secret” message for “Mother, Father, … Continue reading
From 1908 through the mid-1950s, Canadian Pacific offered steamship service on a “triangle route” between Vancouver, Seattle, and Victoria. This menu from that service offers a table d’hôte dinner with a choice of nine entrées for $1.50. Among others, the … Continue reading
Whereas yesterday’s menu had a code of “V-11-36” and advertised the Empress Hotel, this one has a code of “V-14-36”–which I interpret to mean it came out later–and advertises Canadian Pacific’s Chalet-Bungalow Camps in the Rockies. These included Emerald Lake … Continue reading
Although this menu has a photograph of Victoria’s Empress Hotel on the cover, the menu itself was used aboard a dining car on the Dominion, which was CP’s premiere train after the cancellation of the Trans-Canada Limited in 1931. The … Continue reading
This menu for the Trans-Canada Limited has the same date code as the previous two menus. Despite the fact that it is an evening menu while the other two were for mid-day, this one is physically only about half as … Continue reading
Though the format is less elaborate, this mid-day menu for the Trans-Canada Limited has the same date (if “1-9-25” is a date) and similar offerings as the spiral tunnel menu. There are many differences: this one has cream of celery … Continue reading
This mid-day menu from the Trans-Canada Limited has a beautifully colored illustration of Canadian Pacific’s spiral tunnel route ascending the west side of the Rocky Mountains between Field and Lake Louise. Side flaps on the menu describe the two spiral … Continue reading
Canadian National Railways was created in 1918 to manage a group of failed or failing government-sponsored railroads including the Canadian Northern, Intercolonial, and National Transcontinental. In 1920, it inaugurated the Continental Limited, a transcontinental train from Montreal to Vancouver that … Continue reading
At first glance, this looks like just another edition of the 1959 Canada by Canadian Pacific brochure presented here awhile back, or the 1965 See Canada brochure posted yesterday. But, instead of being a 16-page, stapled booklet, like those, this … Continue reading
This 1965 brochure uses many of the same photos, graphics, and text as a 1959 brochure that I posted here previously. The biggest difference is the cover art. Click image to download a 7.3-MB PDF of this 16-page brochure. Click … Continue reading
