We start today with what may be the oldest menu in the Chung collection, one showing “Canadian National Park.” Banff National Park was created in 1885 and, according to Wikipedia, was originally called Rocky Mountains National Park. But this dining car menu appears to call it “Canadian National Park.” The menu is undated but the UBC Library thinks it is from sometime between 1890 and 1899.
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Inside, the left side of the lunch menu is a la carte, while the right side has a list of wines, ales, and other drinks. A cup of coffee was 10¢ while a pint of beer was 20¢ to 25¢.
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This 1921 dinner menu was used on the Trans-Canada Limited. Like the previous menu, it has a la carte on the left and beverages on the right. Offerings included cracked hard shell crab for 50¢, chicken croquettes for 75¢, and sirloin steak for $1.50 — a price that would stay constant until the middle of the 1930s, when it dropped to $1.25. Multiply prices by ten to approximate current U.S. dollars.
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This beautiful painting of a Canadian Pacific steamship in Alaska’s Inside Passage was used on a 1924 dining car lunch menu. This menu opens up to have table d’hôte on the left, a la carte on the right, and a few extra items such as salads and oysters on the half shell in the middle.
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Finally, we have this interesting 1925 menu headed “Dining Car Service” whose front cover shows several scenes in British Columbia while its back cover shows interior photos of station restaurants in Vancouver, Calgary, and Moose Jaw. Inside is an a la carte lunch menu on the right and a full-page ad on the left showing a Canadian Pacific steamship going through the locks on the St. Lawrence Seaway.