Canadian Pacific built Place Viger to be its Montreal hotel in 1898. The lower floors also served as CP’s train station. The hotel closed in 1935, and for several decades the railway didn’t have a hotel in Montreal even though that was its headquarters city. This dining car menu featuring the hotel on the cover is part of CP’s Expression Series, which also had small images of a dozen hotels (including Place Viger) on the back.
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The other menus in this series that we’ve seen show the Chateau Frontenac, Banff Springs Hotel, Hotel Vancouver, and Empress Hotel on the covers. I’ve also seen one with Calgary’s Palliser Hotel. Presumably there are ones for the other six hotels shown on the backs as well.
The text on the cover doesn’t mention the hotel or hotels but instead self-congratulates the railroad as a “gigantic symbol of the vision, enterprise and spirit of the people of Canada.” I imagine this was CP’s response to competition from the government-owned Canadian National.
This menu is undated, but all of the menus we’ve seen in this series that are dated are from 1928 or 1929. This particular menu is a la carte for the “Mid-Day.” Presumably a table d’hôte menu sheet was inserted.