This unusual dining car menu is undated, but from the inside decorations it is from sometime before 1938. I have a 1931 menu that offers a “Red brand” sirloin steak for $1.50 and a 1937 menu that lists it for $1.25. I have no menus dated 1932 through 1936, so I don’t know when the price fell. This menu has it for $1.50, so it was from before 1937. The menu is in both English and French, which means it was used on a train in the eastern part of Canada.
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I can’t read the signature in the lower left corner of the cover illustration; it looks like Rob something, but the only Robert I can find in CP’s stable of artists is Robert Schroder, and the rest of the name doesn’t look like Schroder. In any case, the combination of the illustration, the map at the bottom, and the art deco colored bars at the upper left is, as far as I know, unique among CP menus. However, since I haven’t found any Canadian Pacific dining car menus dated between 1932 and 1936, it’s possible there was a whole series of menus like this one.