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Located about 20 miles from Jasper Lodge, Maligne Lake is itself about 14 miles long and less than a mile wide at its widest point. Near one of the Lake Narrows is Spirit Island (which at low water is a … Continue reading
Category Archives: Canadian National
Here’s another breakfast menu card from Jasper Lodge. The photo at the top is obviously a black-and-white photo with green and red hand coloring of the vegetation. The black bears were left black. (In yesterday’s menu card, most everything was … Continue reading
Here’s a breakfast menu card used in Canadian National’s Jasper Lodge. The top of the menu has a postcard-sized image showing a car driving through the entrance gate to the lodge grounds. Click image to download a 418-KB PDF of … Continue reading
In 1928, the American Association of Railroad Ticket Agents held its national convention in Seattle. Later, I’ll present a document showing that many ticket agents from east of Chicago took a special C&NW-UP train from Chicago to the convention. This … Continue reading
Dated December, 1966, this menu cover was obviously made for the Christmas holidays. Although you can’t tell from the image below, which shows both the front and back covers of the menu, this menu has an odd shape, only 5-1/4″ … Continue reading
This booklet is fairly similar to one we’ve seen from 1958. The text is nearly identical, but many of the photos and a few of the illustrations are different. Click image to download a 38.8-MB PDF of this 36-page booklet. … Continue reading
This 1930 menu takes the art nouveau border used on other railroad menus to an extreme, making the border itself the main focus of the cover, with the small graphic incidentally illustrating what is presumably a Canadian National steamship. The … Continue reading
This elegant 36-page booklet is illustrated mainly by 31 woodcuts by three different artists: Frank Carmichael, Alfred Joseph Casson, and J.E.H. McDonald. But it also has five watercolors by A.Y. Jackson. The booklet is introduced with four pages of text … Continue reading
“Jasper’s got it all,” proclaims this booklet. One thing it didn’t have in 1964, however, was a decent graphics artist to represent itself, as this booklet would be a strong contender for the worst-designed advertising presented on Streamliner Memories. First … Continue reading
In 1961, Canadian National was finally using four-color photos to illustrate this six-panel brochure whose cover featured the yellow, green, and black color scheme of the railways streamlined trains. Ironically, soon after CN began using full-color advertisements, it repainted its … Continue reading