I have this beautiful cover listed as a “missing menu” on my page of Canadian National menu series. Rather than a menu, however, today’s item is the itinerary of a 1949 trip of the American Association of Railroad Ticket Agents to their annual sales meeting in Seattle.

Click image to download an 3.3-MB PDF of this booklet.

The itinerary began in Chicago, from which the agents took the Chicago & North Western to Duluth. There they transferred to the Canadian National, which took them to Saskatoon, Jasper, and Vancouver. The trip included a day-long tour in Jasper and an overnight stay at the Jasper Park Lodge so that the agents could know what they were selling to their customers. There were also short sightseeing trips in Duluth, Saskatoon, and Vancouver.

At the end of the Vancouver sightseeing trip, agents were dropped off at the Canadian Pacific docks where they took a steamship to Seattle. This was a cruise of 9-3/4 hours, four hours longer than the 5-3/4 hour train ride on the Great Northern. Apparently, the ticket agents wanted to experience the steamship even though the Great Northern station in Vancouver was right next door to the Canadian National station.

The back cover of this folder is the same color-saturated illustration that is on back of the missing menu. Neither cover illustration identifies the artist, but they are the same style as 1948-49 menu covers featuring British Columbia, the prairie provinces, and Ontario.