Today’s menus from the Chung collection look different from yesterday’s, mainly because they have a yellow background instead of black. Yet like yesterday’s they each commemorate a city or, in one case, a region. While they also appear to view scenes through an archway, the window analogy breaks down because each of these show three or four different scenes.
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The first menu features Vancouver and Victoria. It shows the Hotel Vancouver on the top, Victoria’s Empress Hotel on the bottom, with two images of what are no doubt supposed to be Canadian Pacific steamships that are probably intended to illustrate the trip between Vancouver and Victoria.
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The menu for Montreal shows Canadian Pacific’s train station and headquarters, its Place Viger hotel, and Canadian Pacific locomotive shops. Although Canadian Pacific was and is firmly a British company, one of its founders was an executive with the Bank of Montreal, which is probably why its headquarters were in the French city rather than Toronto. Curiously, the Place Viger closed in 1935 and CP did not replace it with another hotel in Montreal.
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The menu for Edmonton shows a bridge over the Saskatchewan River that carried both autos, streetcars, and Canadian Pacific trains. Smaller illustrations show a coal tipple and oil wells, symbols of the energy contained under the northern Alberta ground.
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Today’s last menu is one I’ve shown before from my own collection, but I’m including the Chung collection example for the sake of completeness. Rather than feature a city, it focuses on the Canadian Pacific Rockies, including Kicking Horse Canyon, the Spiral Tunnels, and Mt. Assiniboine. The Rocky Mountains aren’t a city, but this menu is so similar to the Edmonton and other menus shown today that it is clearly part of the same series.