Canadian National must have used dozens of different pictures on its Jasper Lodge menus over the years. This menu is from 1964 and shows an aerial view of the lodge, a photo that would have been difficult to take in the early years of the lodge.

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The unpriced menu has a choice of nine entrées preceded by appetizer, soup, and salad accompanied by potatoes and vegetables, and followed by dessert and beverage, resulting in a five-course menu. The entrées include trout, chicken a la king, veal t-bone steak, roast baron of steer, a cold meat platter, and a couple of salads.

One of the entrées and some of the desserts are puzzling. The first entrée listed is called Chamonix au fromage with bacon. Fromage, of course, is cheese and Chamonix is a region of France, but I’m not sure how bacon and cheese would make a good entrée, so I must be missing something.

The desserts include coupe Edna May and Charlotte Nanook. Any dessert called coupe is an ice cream, and coupe Edna May is vanilla ice cream with cherries, whipped cream, and raspberry puree.

Charlotte Nanook, however, is beyond me. Nanook is an Inuit word referring to a polar bear diety. The famous silent movie, Nanook of the North, was written and directed by a man who previously worked for Canadian National predecessor Canadian Northern Railway. In any case, it seems likely that Charlotte Nanook is some sort of ice concoction.