Jasper Park Lodge in 1925

This booklet followed the same design as yesterday’s 1922 booklet: a front cover that covered only half of the width of the booklet and whose illustration wrapped around to a full-width back cover. Together, as shown in the image below, the covers form a beautiful picture of the lodge, the lake, the mountains, and recreational activities including golf, boating, horseback riding and motor touring. The lake is printed in a shiny silver ink or foil that unfortunately reproduces as gray in the scanned images.

Click image to download an 14.2-MB PDF of this 24-page booklet. Click here to download a full-sized PDF of the cover as shown above.

As I noted yesterday, a 1924 Jasper Park booklet also used this design. The interior pages of the 1922 booklet are printed only in black ink, while the 1924 booklet has green highlights and today’s has orange highlights. Other than the color of the highlights and a few photographs and some minor text changes, the 1924 and 1925 booklets are practically the same.

In 1925, Canadian National also published a booklet on Jasper National Park and the Triangle Tour. This booklet was about 8″x10-5/8″ and its front cover covered the entire front of the booklet. What a concept! CN continued to publish booklets with this title at least through the mid-1950s.

CN would use full-sized front covers for all Jasper Lodge booklets after 1925, including those from 1926, 1927, and 1928. The dimensions of these booklets were about 5.4″x7.7″, but CN had larger booklets that were supposedly just about Jasper National Park (but of course included information on the lodge), including this one from 1927.

I’m not sure about the early 1930s, but in 1938 CN still, or again, had a booklet both for the park and one for the lodge. From 1939 through at least 1959 (except for the war years), it published just one booklet a year with the “Jasper National Park” title but also focusing on the lodge.


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