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The photo on the cover of this menu is reminiscent of the image on the 1937 menu presented here a couple of weeks ago. The difference is that the original lodge was shown on the earlier menu while this one … Continue reading
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The cover painting on this menu reminds me of what I call the region series of menus because there is one for the Atlantic provinces, Ontario, the prairie provinces, the Rockies, and British Columbia. The region series menus I’ve seen … Continue reading
Intensely decorated with red and yellow on one side, but only yellow on the other, this brochure also has an image of Jasper Park Lodge that resembles, but is not identical to, the one on a 1937 menu shown here … Continue reading
In an effort to keep British possessions in the Caribbean loyal to the mother country rather than the much-closer United States, Canada agreed to offer steamship service to the West Indies. This was farmed out to Canadian National just about … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen paintings of Mount Edith Cavell on the cover of a 1927 dining car menu and on various CN booklets used to advertise Jasper Park. Based on the date, the image on this menu appears to be a … Continue reading
This menu was used at a 1947 conference of the National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, Vermont. The illustration shows an obviously staged and heavily colorized photo of an Indian and a Royal Canadian Mountie and their horses, with the … Continue reading
Canadian National Railways wasn’t even 30 years old in 1947. However, its earliest predecessor, the Montreal and Lachine Rail Road, made its inaugural trip in 1847, giving CN the excuse for publishing this booklet. Click image to download a 5.0-MB … Continue reading
Today’s menu is dated August 22, the day after yesterday’s lunch menu. The colorized photograph shows one of the McLaughlin-Buicks that the lodge owned to give people tours of the park. McLaughlin Motors was a Canadian automobile manufacturer that merged … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen this photo on a 1940 dinner menu. This one was used for lunch on August 23, 1939. The 1940 menu labeled the photo “Sunwapta Falls” while this one calls it “Athabaska Falls.” These are two different waterfalls, … Continue reading
On August 21, the day after yesterday’s menu, whoever collected these menus must have enjoyed lunch from this card. The photograph, which appears to be colorized, features an unlikely scene of Indians standing by their horses and a teepee high … Continue reading