The colorful map on the back of this brochure shows purple mountains, green valleys, blue rivers, a solid red line showing the route of the Canadian Pacific, and dotted red lines showing what must be hundreds of miles of trails. The front, however, is a puzzle since it doesn’t really have a cover and none of the text mentions the map on the back. Instead, one panel describes Canadian Pacific hotels, another lists activities in and near Banff during the 1941 season, while the third, shown below, promotes “the world’s greatest travel system.”

Click image to download a 6.5-MB PDF of this brochure, which is from the David Rumsey map collection.

It’s easy to see why map collector David Rumsey would want a copy of this map, but it is harder to see why Canadian Pacific wanted to published it in the first place. It is possible that something is missing; perhaps this is an insert in a longer booklet or brochure.