As I was collecting new Canadian Pacific menus for posting here, I discovered the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection, one of the best collections of digitized rail memorabilia on the web. Wallace Chung’s grandfather immigrated to Canada from China more than 100 years ago, and Madeline Chung was born in China and immigrated in 1949. So part of the collection has to do with Chinese immigration and the early history of British Columbia. They both became prominent medical doctors in Vancouver.

Most of the collection, however, has to do with the Canadian Pacific, and was inspired, Chung says in the video above, by a portrait of the steamship Empress of Asia that hung on the wall of his father’s shop in Victoria. In 1999, they donated their collection to the University of British Columbia (where Chung was chief surgeon of the medical school). Of the 25,000 pieces donated, UBC has so far digitized about 10,000 pieces, 6,700 of which have to do with Canadian Pacific.

Below is one example from the collection: a Banff companion to yesterday’s “What to Do in Lake Louise” booklet. The Chung collection has hundreds of such brochures and booklets. The collection also has posters, photographs, timetables, and images of china, silver, and other objects. Since you can download them from the UBC web site, in general I’m not going to repost them here.

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However, since I am particularly interested in menu series, I’m going to post (with permission from UBC) more than 80 menus from the Chung collection that complement my own collection. Most of the Chung collection’s 800 Canadian Pacific menus were for steamships, some were for CP hotels, and a few were for CP Airlines. However, close to 200 were from CP dining cars. Moreover, a preponderance of Chung’s collection is from the 1920s, a period in which I have few examples.

Some of his menus have duplicate covers and others are duplicates of ones in my collection, but that leaves at least 82 that I don’t have, most of which are from before 1930. So I’m going to post these menus in groups of three to six a day over the next few weeks.

In addition, I’m going to post 125 of my own Canadian Pacific menus plus one from the New York Public Library. Many of my menus have covers we’ve already seen, but around half are brand new. Along with a handful of Canadian Pacific booklets, we’ll be looking at CP memorabilia for the next four months.