Golf, swimming, hiking, saddle trips, motor trips, boat trips, dancing, and motion pictures are just some of the things this booklet says were available to do in Jasper in 1936. The prices seem incredibly low — $2 for a round … Continue reading
The 1933 edition of CN’s Triangle Route booklet has the same painting of a CN train in Jasper Park that was on the front cover of yesterday’s booklet. Otherwise, however, the text has been mostly rewritten, most of the black-and-white … Continue reading
Canadian National titled its 1932 booklet advertising trips to Alaska and the Yukon “The Land of the Midnight Sun.” This shouldn’t be confused with postcard-sized welcome-aboard booklets for its Alaska steamships that were titled just “Midnight Sun.” This booklet is … Continue reading
We saw a 1928 edition of this on-board booklet for cruises to southeast Alaska a few days ago. This one has a much nicer cover, but many of the interior pages are similar. i>Click image to download an 6.5-MB PDF … Continue reading
Here’s another Canadian National booklet about Jasper that is not from my collection. I downloaded this one from archive.org. I didn’t like the way they had laid it out, so I cleaned it up a little and made it into … Continue reading
Canadian National and Canadian Pacific each had their own West Coast triangle routes. Canadian Pacific’s, as we saw a few months ago, consisted of steamships between Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle. Canadian National’s, as shown in this 1930 booklet, went by … Continue reading
Being a sucker for color, I really like the cover of this booklet about trips to Alaska on the Inside Passage. Inside, a portion of the front cover is echoed on the title page in orange, a color used for … Continue reading
Like a menu shown here a few days ago, this one is eight pages long with the interior four pages printed on slightly smaller paper than the cover. The previous one was for a special tour but this one is … Continue reading
Though both are ostensibly about Jasper National Park, this booklet is very different from yesterday’s. In fact, despite the title on both the front and back covers, less than four pages of this booklet are about Jasper Park. The rest … Continue reading
This tastefully designed booklet includes three full-page and 26 half-page black-and-white photos with plenty of text enticing travelers to take a Canadian National train to Jasper in the summer of 1928. Though the cover says “Jasper National Park,” the title … Continue reading
