These menus show the “6th green, and beyond, No. 10 fairway” of the Jasper golf course. In 2020 Golf Digest rated this course the eighth best in Canada, slightly edging out Banff, which is number nine. Of course, both are … Continue reading
Here are Jasper Lodge menus showing people enjoying the lawns around the main lodge. The print registration is slightly off on these menus, though the problem is not as noticeable as it was on yesterday’s menus. Click image to download … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen Jasper Park Lodge menus from 1935 and 1940 and we’ve seen this particular photo on a menu from 1948. These two from 1951 show the lodge used the same format over at least three different decades. Click … Continue reading
We’ve already seen the 1950 edition of CN’s Jasper booklet. This one follows a similar outline, but many of the photos are different, and even where they are the same, the text has been rewritten. Click image to download a … Continue reading
In 1948, Canadian Pacific published a 28-page booklet, By Train Through the Canadian Rockies. Printed on stiff paper, the booklet is filled with detailed maps and photos of the rail line showing mountains, rivers, and towns from the Alberta foothills … Continue reading
Here’s another colorful dinner menu featuring a glacier that was supposedly visible from the Prince George. This menu has the same date, July 13, as yesterday’s lunch and the day-before-yesterday’s breakfast menu. As I noted with the breakfast menu, on … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s breakfast menu, the lunch menu on the Prince George was also presented on a card. This one shows a row of totem poles in Kitwanga, British Columbia. Kitwanga has fewer than 500 people but still has a row … Continue reading
This breakfast menu card advertises Canadian National’s Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, Fort Garry being the name of the original settlement that became Winnipeg. The menu has the usual egg-and-meat dishes plus a few unusual (by today’s standards) items such … Continue reading
The Prince George itself (herself? himself? Ships are supposed to have feminine pronouns but it feels strange to call a ship named after a man “her”) is prominently featured on this colorful dinner menu cover. Of course, it was also … Continue reading
This 1950 booklet has the same cover, with a different color scheme and photo on the back, as the 1937 booklet shown here a few weeks ago. CN apparently used different colors on its covers each year: for example, blue … Continue reading
