Like the Canadian Pacific Rockies booklets, this one is something of a cross between an advertisement and an along-the-way booklet. Most of the booklet is devoted to photos and lavish descriptions of major cities from Montreal to Vancouver, including plugs … Continue reading
This timetable fills a whopping 80 pages plus four pages of covers. The cover illustrates CN’s entire transportation system: planes, passenger and freight trains, hotels, trucks, ships, and telecommunications. Click image to download a 46.3-MB PDF of this timetable. Most … Continue reading
As shown in the image below, one panel of this brochure shows off CN passenger trains, but the rest is devoted to describing CN’s expedited shipping services. The main map is identical to the one used in the 1954 map, … Continue reading
The cover of this map shows the streamlined, Dieselized Super Continental in place of the semi-streamlined, steam-powered Continental Limited that was on the cover of earlier editions. CN introduced this train on April 24, 1955, the same day that Canadian … Continue reading
In 1914, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway built a hotel in Minaki, a resort area in northwestern Ontario. The hotel burned to the ground in 1925, and Grand Trunk successor Canadian National rebuilt it into a major lodge that opened … Continue reading
This 1953 edition of a presumably annual booklet continues to advance the use of color. It includes ten color photos and eight large, four-color graphics illustrating the interiors of Jasper Lodge and its golf course. However, highlight colors are limited … Continue reading
This 44-page booklet (plus fold-out map) makes a more sophisticated use of color than pre-war advertising such as the 1940 Quebec booklet. First, it has nine full-color photos including the photos on the front and back covers. Second, pages with … Continue reading
With the end of the war, CN could print this map on higher-quality paper than yesterday’s. It also features a four-color illustration on the cover and one four-color photo inside the folds of the brochure. The maps are nearly identical, … Continue reading
“This folder is printed on newsprint paper in conformity with the requirements of the wartime prices and trade board,” so it has yellowed quite a bit. The non-map side has descriptions of destinations reachable by Canadian National illustrated by two-dozen … Continue reading
Quebec residents in 1940 still hauled freight with horses and wagons and baked bread in outdoor community ovens–or at least, that’s the impression the cover of this booklet conveys. Indeed, the black-and-white photos inside show several horses and carriages and … Continue reading
