Canadian National does a little cross-advertising with the image of the Chateau Laurier, the hotel it owned in Ottawa. The back of the menu discretely describes the nation’s capital, only calling the chateau “one of the finest hotels on the continent” as a part of a list of the city’s many other attractions and notable features. The chateau is now owned by Fairmont, the Canadian Pacific spin-off that also owns most of CP’s former hotels.
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The back also pumps up the importance of the city, saying that “Directing the affairs of the Dominion of Canada, at home and abroad, is a tremendous task, even in times of peace — and today the nation is at war.” Of course, with a population that was then less than the state of New York’s, and a government that in many ways is more decentralized than that of the United States, that task wasn’t really so tremendous.
Inside, this is the same 1942 a la carte menu that was in yesterday’s menu. The menu was used on a dining car, but it gives no indication of which train would have used it.