This booklet is unusual in that the front cover is only half the width of the interior pages while the cover illustration wraps around to a full-width back cover. We’ve previously seen a 1924 Jasper Park booklet that was also designed this way. Starting in 1926, however, CN adopted a more sensible design in which a nicely illustrated front cover covers the entire booklet.

Click image to download an 11.3-MB PDF of this 24-page booklet. Click here to download a full-sized PDF of the cover as shown above.

Although separated by just two years, today’s booklet and the one from 1924 differ in many ways. Both cover similar topics, of course, but not necessarily in the same order and generally with different text. Both present similar photos in collages, but the 1922 booklet has five to seven photos per collage while the 1924 booklet has just four to five. Both have centerfold maps, but the 1922 booklet has a key showing the location of 74 different lakes, peaks, and other features in the park.

In short, the older booklet actually seems to be a little bit more useful to potential visitors. While the 1924 booklet is from my own collection, today’s is from archive.org. I brightened up the covers and laid it out the way it would appear to someone holding a paper copy. Unfortunately, whoever scanned the booklet left out the center portion of the centerfold map, so there is a discontinuity where the right and lefthand pages meet.