Eastward Across Canada

This is a slight different, and slightly older, version of a booklet I’ve shown here before. The differences are small, but one of them is a mistake in a map on page 2 that reverses the locations of Vancouver and Nanaimo, British Columbia. It’s possible the booklet was redesigned to correct that mistake.

Click image to download a 12.8-MB PDF of this 28-page booklet.

The biggest difference between the two is the addition of four pages of photos, two of the Rockies and two of eastern Canada, showing sights to be reached on CP trains. A couple of minor photos were also changed and two pages showing interiors of the new Canadian were moved from the centerfold to the back of the booklet. The smallest changes are on the front cover: at the top, the word “Eastward” is in magenta on this one and black on the other, while at the bottom the words “Scenic Dome Route” were replaced with “Only Dome Route Across Canada” and smaller words mentioning the Canadian and Dominion.

Aside from that, the booklets are nearly identical. Page 23 of this one and page 25 of the other one cite some data from 1953, including the number of Canadian Pacific employees, locomotives, passenger cars, and so forth. Since the data weren’t updated for the later edition, I presume they were both issued, perhaps a few months apart, in 1954.


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