The painting that covers the front of this menu is based on a photograph taken of the pounding of Canadian Pacific’s last spike in British Columbia. The hammer was wielded by Donald Smith, one of the chief financiers of the railroad. Also in the painting are, from the far left, Major A.B. Rogers, the surveyor who located the railroad through the Selkirk and Rocky Mountains; Michael J. Haney, the contractor who built the British Columbia part of the line and who went on to build the White Pass & Yukon Railroad; CP Vice-President (soon to be president) William Cornelius Van Horne; and Chief Engineer Sanford Fleming and his distinguished beard.
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As the top of the menu suggests, this painting was done to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the last spike ceremony (which used an ordinary spike rather than one made of silver or gold). Inside, the war-abbreviated menu has both table d’hôte and a la carte on the left and beverages on the right. Curiously, the initials “JTS” are above the beverage menu, matching the signature on yesterday’s note about the Indian menu series.