Here’s another menu in the Confederation series that I didn’t find in the Chung collection. The cover compares an early locomotive-mounted wedge plow with a then-modern rotary snow plow. The back cover claims that “The development of the mechanical or rotary snow plough was largely due to cooperation by the Canadian Pacific” which first experimented with one in 1883 and in 1910 “designed new heavy-service ploughs, the largest ever built.”
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historical information I can find about rotary snowplows indeed say that the first one was designed by a Canadian and tested on Canadian Pacific tracks near Toronto in 1883. The tests were successful and Canadian Pacific immediately bought eight such plows.
TheThis menu is marked for the Trans-Canada Limited. One side is marked “Ready to Serve” and includes various fish, meats, and vegetables. The other side is marked “From the Grill” and includes steaks, chicken, lamb chops, and eggs. Since there are no full meals, I suspect it was a lunch menu and/or a paper table d’hôte menu was inserted in the menu.
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