Canadian National and Canadian Pacific each had their own West Coast triangle routes. Canadian Pacific’s, as we saw a few months ago, consisted of steamships between Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle. Canadian National’s, as shown in this 1930 booklet, went by train from Jasper to Prince Rupert, steamship to Vancouver, and train back to Jasper. Although this was described in the Canadian Rockies booklet shown a couple of days ago, the term “Triangle tour” and triangle shape were more prominently featured on the cover of this one.

Click image to download a 7.1-MB PDF of this 20-page booklet.

Like yesterday’s, this is one of those booklets where the main cover, shown above, is actually the back cover. The front cover is mostly text but also has a small color painting of a Canadian National train going by Mount Robson, the “monarch of the Rockies.” Inside, in addition to many black-and-white photos and graphics, are the Emily Carr and Langdon Kihn paintings as well as two color photos, one of the lodge and one of the Jasper golf course.

In format and subject matter, this booklet is very much like yesterday’s. Yet the text has been completely rewritten and many of the photos are different. CN clearly went to a lot of trouble to make it seem that each year would offer something new to vacationing travelers.