The description of trail riding on the back of this menu doesn’t say so, but the mountain on the cover is Mount Assiniboine, which would place these riders in the British Columbia provincial park of that name, which was created in 1922. The photo was taken by the same H. Armstrong Roberts who took the photo of the Lake O’Hara Bungalows on the cover of yesterday’s menu.
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This menu is undated, but it was probably issued at about the same time as yesterday’s, which I dated to 1934. The menu is a la carte, with English on the left and French on the right. This means it was probably used on a train in Quebec or between Quebec and Toronto, as menus used in western Canada were not yet bilingual. The fact that the only printer code is “Que.-5” seems to confirm this. If the 5 referred to train #5, that went from Newport, Vermont to Quebec City, having connected at Newport with a Boston & Maine train that had come via the New Haven from New York City. The train arrived in Quebec after 8 pm, allowing plenty of time for dinner in the dining car.
The line from Newport to Quebec City was operated by Quebec Central Railway, which was a subsidiary of the CPR. Thus it would make sense to preface the number 5 with “Que.-“.
The numbers 5 and 6 had also been used for the Soo-Pacific Express (one of the two summer trains from Chicago or St Paul to Vancouver) up to the summer of 1930, but those numbers fell out of use after 1930.
The numbers 5 and 6 were also used by various short runs on the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway (another CPR subsidiary) on Vancouver Island up to the early 30s, but nothing that would have involved bilingual dining amenities. 🙂