The first two of today’s menus from the Chung collection are dated 1928. The first two resemble one another enough that they could be considered part of a series.
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Though this one shows the Banff Springs Hotel, it was used as a breakfast menu on the Soo Pacific Limited, the Chicago-Vancouver train that preceded the Mountaineer. The cover photo appears somewhat crudely colorized; though the building is faced with stone, it appears white in the photo, probably because the colorist simply left it uncolored.
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This cover showing the Chateau Lake Louise was also on a breakfast menu for the Soo Pacific. The two menus aren’t identical, however, as this one offered halibut and salmon while the Banff one offered whitefish and trout. We’ve seen this cover before on a 1925 Trans-Canada Limited dinner menu. While the covers of the Banff and Lake Louise menus resemble one another, there are also differences in the placement of the words “Banff” and “Lake Louise.”
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This lunch menu from the Dominion doesn’t look at all like the previous two, and I can’t find any others like it either. I’m including it here because I don’t have any other Chung menus to group it with. Though it is undated, the interior decoration is similar to other menus from around 1930 plus or minus a year.