Though both are ostensibly about Jasper National Park, this booklet is very different from yesterday’s. In fact, despite the title on both the front and back covers, less than four pages of this booklet are about Jasper Park. The rest is about a train trip to Vancouver, steamship to Prince Rupert, and then the train from Rupert back to Jasper. This is what CN had called the “Triangle Tour” at least since 1923, although that term is only briefly mentioned in this booklet.

Click image to download a 7.2-MB PDF of this 20-page booklet.

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 Jasper Lodge. Inside, in addition to many black-and-white photos and graphics, are two more color paintings, both in the centerfold.

One of the paintings, of totem poles at the Indian village of Kispayaks, is by my favorite Canadian artist, Emily Carr. Working mainly out of Victoria, Carr developed her own post-impressionistic style that has made her work an unforgettable symbol of British Columbia.

The other painting, also showing totem poles at an Indian village called Kitwinkul, is by Langdon Kihn. As noted here several years ago, Kihn was a student of Winold Reiss and in my opinion was never as good as Reiss. By happenstance, Louis Hill encountered his Indian paintings before he saw any of Reiss’ work. So Hill bought many of them and distributed copies to Great Northern passengers, replacing them with Reiss’ paintings when he realized that the teacher had not been surpassed by the student. Nevertheless, the Kihn painting used in this booklet is hauntingly beautiful.

This booklet is from archive.org. I didn’t like the way they laid it out, so I cleaned up the images a little bit and made a new PDF. I’ll present several more cleaned-up PDFs of Canadian National booklets from archive.org in the next few days.