This booklet has photos and descriptions of sights along the Canadian Pacific from Nova Scotia to Victoria. But what makes it most interesting is that, unlike booklets with the same name from 1957 and 1959, this one was issued before the Canadian began operating, and the eight interior photos show what life was like on CP’s pre-streamlined trains such as the Dominion.

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In contrast to the vivid colors shown in Hedley Rainnie’s illustrations of the Canadian interiors, the interiors of the pre-streamlined trains look dark and somber, either lined with wood veneers or painting institutional green or brown. To be fair, Rainnie probably exaggerated the brightness of the colors in his interior paintings, using pink for salmon and bright yellow for a darker yellow. But in comparison to the trains that preceded it, the Budd-built streamliners must have seemed like a whole new world.

Two of the interior photos are not just staged but are cut-aways, allowing the photographer more room to show sleeping rooms in a single frame. These were probably provided by the manufacturer, though images seen through the windows of some of the other pictures make it clear that they are supposed to represent Canadian Pacific train cars.