In the late 1920s, Canadian Pacific owned and operated a dozen major hotels and lodges, all of which are pictured on the back of this menu. We’ve previously seen menus like this for six of those hotels; this brings it up to seven. Still to be found are menus picturing the Algonquin, Palliser, Saskatchewan, York, and Emerald Lake Chalet.

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This particular menu was used on a special train for the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks going from Vancouver to Port Arthur, which is now part of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario. The Elks 1929 international convention from July 7 to July 13 attracted 10,000 people to Los Angeles, and the train was carrying eastern Canadian members home from that meeting.

The unpriced breakfast menu is dated July 18. It offered fruit, cereals, Alberta fish, eggs “as you like them,” various breakfast meats, hashed browns, breads, griddle cakes, and coffee, tea, or milk.