Although the cover photo of the Saint-François River shows Canadian National tracks, most CN passengers would never see this seen as it was on a branch line from Montreal to Sherbrook, Quebec, continuing to Portland, Maine. CN’s 1956 timetable shows … Continue reading
This menu has the same photo that was on a 1951 menu shown here a few days ago. It was tucked into yesterday’s 1955 Jasper Park booklet, so must have been collected by the same traveler. Click image to download … Continue reading
I don’t have a 1954 Jasper Park booklet, but this 1955 booklet is the same 6″x9″ format as all of CN’s Jasper booklets at least as far back as 1938. This booklet follows the same general outline as the 1953 … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu before, at which time I dated it to 1956. I now think they were from 1954. The clue is the ad on the back bragging about CN’s order for “359 new passenger cars.” This dates it … Continue reading
Like many of the other symbols of the queen’s authority, the royal sceptre was made in 1661 for the coronation of Charles II. However, the massive, 530-carat diamond at the top of the sceptre was added later. It was cut … Continue reading
Canadian National’s 1937 coronation menus each showed one of the symbols of the king’s authority, and CN repeated that in 1953. It managed to do so with only three menus by putting symbols on both the fronts and backs of … Continue reading
The same Streamliner Memories reader who contributed scans of Canadian National’s six 1937 coronation menus also contributed scans of menus for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Elsewhere on this website I wrote that there were also six … Continue reading
When I first saw the photo on the cover of this menu, I wondered, “Why is that man trying to ski on the snow-covered roof of that rickety looking barn?” It turned out it wasn’t snow, but cod; it wasn’t … Continue reading
Here’s a beautiful photo of Mount Athabaska, near the Columbia Icefield, on a Canadian National menu. The car in the foreground looks like it was made in around 1940, but the menu is from 1953. It says it was for … Continue reading
The Tonquin Valley holds Lake Amethyst surrounded by spectacular mountains, but it was probably seen by few Jasper Lodge visitors in 1951 because it required a hike of at least seven miles each way, not counting the miles of hiking … Continue reading
