By 1957, when this menu was issued, Canadian Pacific had mostly replaced paintings with Kodachrome photos on its menu covers. However, this one shows that it still sometimes used paintings. This was a lunch menu for a conference at the Empress Hotel, rather than a dining car menu, which may account for the departure from standard practice.
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1937 menu featuring a painting of Malahat Drive on Vancouver Island. That painting was by William Topham while this one is by Alfred Crocker Leighton. Born in England in 1901, Leighton was hired by the Canadian Pacific to paint scenes along its route when he was just 23 years old. He made many trips across Canada and eventually settled in Calgary where he died in 1965.
We’ve previously seen aThis menu offered a choice of three appetizers, two soups, four entrées, two vegetables, and three desserts. This is more like something I would expect from a grand hotel than the Banff Springs Hotel’s JayCee menu that I called “skimpy” a few days ago.