This menu advertises CP’s great ship in its heyday, when it was carrying a couple of trainloads of passengers between Liverpool and St. Johns, New Brunswick per five-day trip. The painting doesn’t has a signature because the bottom portion was cropped off for the menu, but a poster reveals it was painted by Norman Wilkinson, whose works grace the covers of at least two other CP menus.
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This menu, which is from the collection of the New York Public Library, is in an unusual fold-in-thirds format that I’ve shown here only once before. Both are from 1937 and both offered table d’hôte dinners for $1.00, $1.25, and $1.50 (about US$13 to US$19 today).