We’ve seen this cover before on a menu from the Chung collection. As I pointed out then, Canadian Pacific ordered 18 dome-observation cars from the Budd Company, each named after a national or provincial park, and decorated the interiors with … Continue reading
Except for the cover and the date, this brochure is identical to the 1959 Canadian brochure. The cover art is in the same style as a series of booklets Canadian Pacific issued about its hotels in 1960 and 1961. Click … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen brochures about the Canadian from 1955, 1958, and an undated one that is probably from 1956 or 1957. Today’s brochure is dated 1959 and covers much of the same material. Click image to download a 4.1-MB PDF … Continue reading
Here’s a menu from the Chung collection that I had previously overlooked or ignored. The format is similar to a 1961 menu previously shown here, but the background color is teal instead of white. Click image to download a 4.6-MB … Continue reading
Instead of trying to cram both French and English into one brochure, Canadian Pacific published two: one in English and one in French. It appears that the French wore the same ridiculous clothes as hair styles in the 1970s as … Continue reading
This three-panel brochure is undated, but the hair and clothing styles are obviously (and embarrassingly) from the 1970s. VIA took over Canadian Pacific passenger operations in 1978, so the brochure is from sometime before that. Click image to download a … Continue reading
While it doesn’t say so, this menu was clearly used in the full dining car rather than the Skyline coffee shop, as it has higher prices and a slightly wider array of selections. The main addition to the menu is … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a Skyline coffee shop dinner menu from 1964 that had an image of the Canadian along the Bow River in Banff National Park. This breakfast menu is from 1970 and shows the train along one of the … Continue reading
This brochure’s cover describes the Canadian as “Canada’s only dome-equipped streamliner.” But Canadian Pacific owned 36 dome cars and needed only half of them for the Canadian. The other CP train with dome cars — the Dominion — mixed streamlined … Continue reading
Here are a couple of railroad-issued postcards featuring the Canadian. The first has the familiar painting by Chesley Bonestell. CP used this painting in magazine ads, on menu covers, and in brochures. Click image to download a 123-KB PDF of … Continue reading
