Chateau St. Louis 1927 Menu

Contrary to the implication of the cover, the Chateau St. Louis was not a Canadian Pacific hotel somewhere in Quebec but was the governor’s house in what is now Quebec City when Quebec was known as New France. Originally built in 1647 and rebuilt in 1700, it burned to the ground in 1834 and in 1892 it became the site of the Chateau Frontenac (pictured lower left), named after New France governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac who once lived in the Chateau St. Louis.

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This 1927 lunch menu was used on the exclusive Trans-Canada Limited, which Canadian Pacific bragged had the longest route of any all-Pullman train in the world. Everything on the menu was a la carte, including a crab cocktail for 25 cents, broiled salmon, halibut, or cod for 65 cents, and buffalo steaks for $1.50. Multiplying prices by 11 to get today’s U.S. dollars suggests that these prices were actually quite reasonable.


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