This Canadian Pacific menu, with its diagonal photographs, is a style I haven’t seen before. Dated May 30, 1955, it says it was used on a “special train” for a Southland Life Insurance Company trip to Banff.
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not unique for a Canadian Pacific menu, this has two photographs on the cover instead of the usual one. The top photo was taken in Nova Scotia; the bottom on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The clear and slightly deceptive message is that Canada offers warm summers that invite sunbathing and water sports from coast to coast.
Unusual butFor $2.25 (a little less than US$15 in today’s money), the menu offers a hearty lunch of trout, turkey, or steak-and-mushroom pie, any of which came with soup, potatoes, vegetable, bread, dessert, and beverage. Desserts included rhubarb pie, ice cream, or cheese and biscuits.