Mount Athabaska Breakfast Menu

Here’s a beautiful photo of Mount Athabaska, near the Columbia Icefield, on a Canadian National menu. The car in the foreground looks like it was made in around 1940, but the menu is from 1953. It says it was for breakfast in the buffet car, but the menu is as substantial as one from a full diner.

Click image to download a 1.1-MB PDF of this menu.

The menu itself is undated, but it came to me with a 1953 cover letter from W.R. Sutherland, the superintendent of CN’s sleeping, dining, and parlor car department, providing “samples” of Canadian National “menu cards” from an Ohio resident who requested them. It was nice of that Ohioan to save the letter with the menu.

Click image to download a 260-KB PDF of this letter.


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