This menu is similar in format to yesterday’s: a front-cover painting purporting to show a historic scene and a back-cover painting showing a similar scene in the present day wrapped around a separate menu paper with a blurb about CN … Continue reading
In January 1921, when this menu was printed, Canadian National was barely 18 months old and consisted of a variety of bankrupt railroads. Obviously trying to find an identify for itself in face of competition from the mighty Canadian Pacific, … Continue reading
This menu pictures the interior of one of the comfortable lounges in the new Jasper Park Lodge. Above the fireplace is a piece of Northwest Indian artwork that was also pictured on the lodge’s beverage menu . Click image to … Continue reading
As previously noted, CN’s log-built Jasper Park Lodge burned to the ground in 1952, forcing the railroad to hastily erect a new lodge made of fireproof stone, concrete, and steel. While not as rustic as the old one, it was … Continue reading
The 14th tee of Jasper’s golf course appears to be located on a small peninsula in Lac Beauvert. If this were a modern golf course, the designer might have sadistically used the peninsula for the green, causing many golfers to … Continue reading
I have this beautiful cover listed as a “missing menu” on my page of Canadian National menu series. Rather than a menu, however, today’s item is the itinerary of a 1949 trip of the American Association of Railroad Ticket Agents … Continue reading
This dinner menu has a different view of Minaki Lodge from yesterday’s lunch menu. The water in the background is supposed to be the Winnipeg River, but the river is really more of a series of lakes beginning with Lake … Continue reading
Minaki Lodge was a misbegotten effort by CN predecessor Grand Trunk Pacific to build a resort in the middle of nowhere. Although Minaki is in Ontario, it is only 114 miles east of Winnipeg but 1,244 miles west of Toronto. … Continue reading
This menu was used on the same trip of the American Association of Railroad Ticket Agents as yesterday’s. While the back of yesterday’s menu noted that hunting was illegal in Jasper Park, this one points out that fishing was “not … Continue reading
“Shooting” in this case means shooting photographs with a camera. The back cover of this menu explains that Jasper Park mountains, wildlife, rivers, and glaciers, such as the Angel Glacier on Mount Edith Cavell shown on the cover, are all … Continue reading
