The photo on this menu cover is taken from the same spot as the photo on a Canadian Pacific booklet that I estimated was published in 1948. However, the locomotives in the photos are quite different. Where the locomotive on the booklet is a 2-10-4 Selkirk that was built in 1938, the locomotive on the menu is a 4-6-4 Hudson that was probably built in 1937. CP used Selkirks to pull most of its passenger trains over the Rockies, and the Hudsons were only about 58 percent as powerful as the Selkirks, so the train being pulled in this photo must be smaller than normal.

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Unlike the Royal Hudsons built in 1937, this one isn’t semi-streamlined. If I read the number on the side of the locomotive correctly, it was 2817. Its sister locomotive, 2816, was recently restored to operation by Canadian Pacific and looks quite beautiful despite the lack of streamlining. I imagine that the photos of both the Selkirk and the Hudson entering the tunnel were taken by Nicholas Morant, though I didn’t find either one by glancing through a book of his photos.

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This menu is in the same series as a menu previously shown here that featured Lake Louise on the cover. Both are about 7-1/2″x9-1/2″, both use full-page photos on the cover, both have a brief photo caption in a little emblem at the bottom of the cover, and both were used on Canadian Pacific steamships. Where the Lake Louise menu was used on an Alaska steamship, this one was used on the Empress of Canada in 1952, probably between Montreal and Liverpool.

The Lake Louise menu was undated, but I estimated it was from 1947 or 1948. Both menus have identical lists of Canadian Pacific hotels on the back, so the date of the Lake Louise menu was probably closer to 1952. So far, these are the only two menus I’ve found that appear to be part of this series.