The back cover of this menu says that the attractive flowers on the front are Indian paintbrush and dog tooth violet. However, according to Wikipedia, dogtooth violet only grows in eastern North America. The yellow flowers in the painting are … Continue reading
This timetable is for the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway, which was the U.S. portion of the Grand Trunk. The railway extended from Detroit and Port Huron to Chicago, with a branch line to Grand Haven (with a ferry link … Continue reading
The map on the back of this brochure has the heaviest lines going from Boston and New York in the East to Detroit and Chicago in the West. But Central Vermont only owned a tiny portion of this route, with … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a Great Western timetable from 1881. In 1882, that railway was purchased by and became the Great Western Division of the Grand Trunk, allowing the latter to extend its reach from Halifax to Chicago. Although Grand Trunk … Continue reading
The Great Western was one of the oldest railroads in Canada, having begun operating at least a dozen years before the nation of Canada was even created. Its main line was from Niagara Falls to Windsor, Ontario, across the Detroit … Continue reading
The Pickerel River flows west across a heavily glaciated part of Ontario before joining with the east-west French River. The latter river, says Wikipedia, “is considered the dividing line between Northern and Southern Ontario.” In fact, the vast majority of … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a 1938 CN booklet about Jasper National Park, which inevitably included a lot of information about the lodge as well. Today’s booklet, which is from archive.org, focuses on the lodge but with six pages of photos of … Continue reading
CN’s Jasper booklet for 1937 uses some of the same photos as in the 1938 booklet, but with substantially different text. I don’t yet have a 1936 booklet to compare it with. Click image to download a 13.0-MB PDF of … Continue reading
In 1937, Canadian National changed its Rockies/Triangle Tour advertising from a booklet to a brochure. The brochure has the equivalent of about 18 pages of text and photos, which made it unwieldy to open and read, so this change seems … Continue reading
Canadian National issued several annual booklets about travel in the western provinces that complemented and blended into one another. The Jasper Park booklets described the lodge and the park and included a detailed list of activities and costs in the … Continue reading
