Dominion Atlantic is the company that created Evangeline Park, which is now part of the Grand-Pré National Historic Site. Most of the history there was invented by the railroad taking advantage of a popular Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem. Though Dominion Atlantic was wholly owned by Canadian Pacific, it operated its own trains and buffet cars in order to take advantage of its local identity as a Nova Scotia railway.

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The menu is undated, but prices are consistent with other menus that came with it that were dated around 1949 and 1950. The menu has breakfasts for 50¢ and 75¢ and luncheons for 75¢, $1.00, and $1.50. If indeed the menu is from 1949, multiply the prices by about ten to get today’s U.S. dollars.