Canadian Pacific’s dome-observation cars were known as Park cars because they were all named after Canadian national or provincial parks. Each car was also decorated with murals depicting the named park by a Canadian artist, some of whose paintings appeared on various CP menus and advertising.
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The covers of these two beverage menus from the Chung collection depict two of the murals. I’m not sure which parks are depicted, but the the above menu from 1959 may show Laurentide National Park while the menu below from 1962 shows Kootenay National Park. As far as I can tell, these are the only two murals reprinted on Mural Lounge menus.
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The artists and the parks that they painted were:
| A. J. Casson | Algonquin Park |
| Franklin Arbuckle | Assiniboine Park |
| Charles Comfort | Banff Park |
| Leslie Smith | Evangeline Park |
| Lawren Phillips Harris | Fundy Park |
| Adam-Sheriff Scott | Glacier Park |
| A. Y. Jackson | Kokanee Park |
| George Pepper | Kootenay Park |
| Albert Cloutier | Laurentide Park |
| Fred Finley | Prince Albert Park |
| R. W. Pilot | Revelstoke Park |
| William Winter | Riding Mountain Park |
| Yvonne Housser | Sibley Park |
| W. J. Phillips | Strathcona Park |
| Edwin Holgate | Tremblant Park |
| E. J. Hughes | Tweedsmuir Park |
| L. Petely-Jones | Waterton Park |
| Harold Beament | Yoho Park |
Fundy Park was wrecked in 1959. The murals were removed from the remaining cars in 1986 and now reside in the Canada Science and Technology Museum.