Jasper National Park in 1937

CN’s Jasper booklet for 1937 uses some of the same photos as in the 1938 booklet, but with substantially different text. I don’t yet have a 1936 booklet to compare it with.

Click image to download a 13.0-MB PDF of this 42-page booklet.

Unlike the 1938 edition, this one came with an insert that lists lodging rates and describes one- to four-day tours of the region. Rooms in cabins started as low as $7 per night, single-occupancy, with a detached bath and $9 with a private bath. Tours cost about $12 to $14 per person per day, including transportation, lodging, and some meals. Multiply prices by about 16 to get today’s U.S. dollars.

Click image to download a 1.7-MB PDF of this brochure.

Archive.org has a copy of this booklet, but for some reason it is missing many of the pages. My copy has 40 pages plus a fold-out map; archive.org has just 27 pages and no map.

Although I don’t have a 1936 Jasper Park booklet, I do have booklets for all other years between 1924 and 1958 except for 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, and 1949. (CN didn’t seem to issue any in 1943, 1944, or 1945.) I also have a rates booklet for 1959, which may be the only booklet issued that year as I haven’t seen any other. Then there is a rather ugly booklet for 1964. Presumably, CN issued booklets for other years in the 1960s, but I haven’t seen them.


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