Jasper Park Dining Car Menu

Here’s a 1964 menu showing a collage of eleven photos of Jasper Park and Jasper Lodge on the front cover. Inside, the menu itself is printed on a separate piece of paper that was attached to the cover with paperclips. The inside front cover has a caption reading, “Cover: Jasper Park Lodge, all-day, all-way summer fun in the Canadian Rockies.”

Click image to download an 1.6-MB PDF of this menu.

The size of this menu is similar to this 1963 menu. The cover collage is similar to this 1965 menu, which featured Alaska instead of Jasper, and this 1965 menu, which featured scenes from the Atlantic provinces.

The table d’hôte menu itself is for lunch, offering fillet of sole, pot au feu, or a cold roast beef plate as entrées. No a la carte items are offered. Most of the entrees come with some sort of potatoes and all meals came with “jellied consommé or chilled blended fruit juice,” bread, dessert, and beverage.

In 1964, dinner cost coach passengers $2.50 but was “complimentary to sleeping car passengers.” Amtrak has a similar policy today and, frankly, the meals on this menu don’t look much better than Amtrak’s, which are pretty bad. CN was obviously making cutbacks on its dining car service.

The back cover is an ad for Tilden Rent-a-Car. Tilden cars were available in nearly 100 cities served by CN, the ad noted, adding that, “If you wish to wire for a Tilden reservation, your CN sleeping car conductor or trainman will forward your telegram.”


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