Across Canada in 1963

While yesterday’s booklet presented information about the route of the Canadian from west to east, today’s has pretty much the same information but arranged from east to west. Unlike yesterday’s, this one is clearly dated 1963 on the back cover. Like yesterday’s, this one has a small box of “Canadian Pacific highlights.” This box, on page 27, presents information about the railway as of 1962.

Click image to download a 19.8-MB PDF of this 32-page booklet.

Both booklets have the same centerfold map of the world showing Canadian Pacific railway, steamship, and airline routes. Both booklets also have two pages showing the interior of the Canadian in paintings we’ve seen before by Hedley Rainnie (1914-1961). Although some web sites list Rainnie as a Canadian painter, he was born in England and died in London.

Rainnie’s full name was either Hedley Graham Jones Rainnie or Hedley Graham James Rainnie, depending on which web site you look at. The Internet Movie Data Base lists a Hedley Rainnie as an actor who appeared in a 1949 movie, an episode of a 1960 television show, and a 1961 made-for-television movie in which he apparently plays a relative of Ingrid Bergman. This seems to be the same person as the artist, as another web site says that the artist was also a stage actor and has a photo of him appearing in the 1949 movie.


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