“Manufacturing is taking an increasingly important place in our economic life,” says this menu. But, when the menu was issued, it was “second only to agriculture.” Today, Canada’s manufacturing sector is several times larger than agriculture. Click image to download … Continue reading
This menu features “fishing,” as distinct from “fisheries.” The latter term implies some sort of sustainable management while the former suggests people are just mining the resource. The text on the back doesn’t give any indication that CN, at least, … Continue reading
Canadian National issued a series of menus featuring wood cuts celebrating various Canadian industries. This one describes “forestry,” by which they mean logging, as I doubt Canada had gotten into “forestry” (meaning planting and growing new crops of trees) when … Continue reading
The prewar Prince George steams slowly by a fisherman cruising on Lynn Canal, the name of the final stretch of the Inside Passage between Vancouver and Skagway. Not a canal in the sense of being artificial, it was named by … Continue reading
At first glance, this appears to be a menu in what I call the charcoal series of Canadian National Alaska steamship dinner menus. Opening it, however, reveals it to be the program for the last night’s entertainment on the TSS … Continue reading
This booklet is a lot like Canadian National’s 1938 Jasper booklet. Like that one, it starts with a forward by G.H. Lash, a Canadian writer whose articles about the outdoors often appeared in Maclean’s magazine. From there, the booklet has … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1932 booklet about Jasper Park that has a beautiful color painting on the cover and four more color paintings on the inside. Thanks to the introduction of Kodachrome film in 1935, this 1938 booklet instead has … Continue reading
According to the back of this menu, one of the crown jewels of Britain is a ring known as the “wedding ring” because it represents the marriage of the monarch to the nation. The menu claims the ring dates back … Continue reading
In a legend described on the back of this menu, the spirit of the virgin Mary presented Thomas à Becket with a vessel shaped like an eagle (the ampulla) and a vial of oil which, she said, should be used … Continue reading
The Stone of Scone is a small, bench-shaped piece of sandstone that has been used for the crowning of Scottish monarchs since the ninth century. It was brought to Westminster Abbey by Edward the First in 1296, the back of … Continue reading
