Charcoal Drawing Menus

Perhaps as an economy measure, starting in around 1930 Canadian Pacific issued a series of menus that featured what appears to be pencil or charcoal drawings on the cover. We’ve already seen a dining car menu that featured the Empress of Britain on the cover of a menu in landscape format. (The image itself is square but the menu is wider than it is tall.) Today’s menus are from the Chung collection.

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Here’s the same image on a menu in portrait format. This menu was used an an Alaska service steamship. The BC Library dated it to 1930 but it could be later.

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This menu seems to have a reverse image of the previous one, but it shows the Empress of Japan by the same artist, Albert Clautier. This menu was used on the Princess Alice in Alaska service.

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Here we have the Banff Springs Hotel. This is another dinner menu from an Alaska service steamship. Although the BC Library also dated this one to 1930, the only other menus I have with the vertical bars in the lower right corner that can be dated are from 1936 or later.
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This breakfast menu portrays the Chateau Lake Louise and was also apparently used in the dining room of that chateau. This and the previous menu are undated but the UBC library says they were from 1930.

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Canadian Pacific kept using these menus for several years. This lunch menu showing the Royal York Hotel was used aboard the Empress of Australia on one of its West Indies cruises in 1936.

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Finally, this dinner menu showing the Chateau Frontenac was also used aboard the Empress of Australia on a West Indies cruises, this one almost exactly a year later in 1937.


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