We’ve previously seen Jasper Park Lodge menus from 1935 and 1940 and we’ve seen this particular photo on a menu from 1948. These two from 1951 show the lodge used the same format over at least three different decades.

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The photograph shows a part of the Columbia Icefield, which wasn’t accessible to tourists in 1935. The photos in both the above breakfast menu and the below dinner menu are poorly reproduced with one of the colors being slightly offset from the others. While such a mistake would be unacceptable in an advertising brochure, CN probably accepted them from the printer believing that people wouldn’t walk out on the restaurant simply because of poor printing especially since the nearest alternative restaurant was several miles away.

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As was the practice in 1940, the dinner menu is dated but the breakfast menu is not, probably because breakfast was the same every day but dinner varied from day to day. In this case, the unpriced dinner menu is dated August 4, 1951, and offered whitefish, haddock, eggs, veal, chicken breast, lamb kidney, pork loin, cold beef, and a fruit plate with cottage cheese. Each comes with a choice of appetizers (one of which was foie gra without an “s”), soup, potato and vegetables, salad, dessert, and beverage. I’ve never heard of some of the desserts and neither, apparently, has the internet; anyone know what a coupe royal is?