This booklet is from my own collection. Each of the “expression” booklets advertising Canadian Pacific hotels have a translucent sheet of paper separating the cover from the inside material and advertising the then-forthcoming Empress of Britain. To make this easier to read, I scanned the booklet with a white piece of paper behind this translucent sheet.

Click image to view and download a 24.1-MB PDF of this 16-page booklet.

I dated the Empress Hotel booklet, shown here a few days ago, to 1929 because it said that a new wing of that hotel would open in October 1929. All of the booklets also state that the York Hotel had already opened in June of 1929, but some of them could have been issued in 1930. The menus with the same covers are dated anywhere from 1928 to 1930, so to be conservative I am dating this booklet to 1930.

At first glance, the exterior of the Banff Springs Hotel resembles a typical National Park Rustic style building. But inside, according to this booklet, are Italian suites that are “replicas of an apartment of the Renaissance period,” plus Jacobean, Tudor, Georgian, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Empire and Art Moderne suites as well. People who didn’t want such luxuries when visiting national parks probably couldn’t afford to stay at the Banff Springs Hotel anyway, or at least not in those suites.