The front cover of this menu shows a graffiti artist practicing his trade in front of some other hooligans while the back cover shows Canadian National’s Vancouver train station, which offered huge expanses of stone walls for aspiring graffiti artists. That may not be what CN intended in 1921, but it’s what I see today.

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The front cover painting is signed Thomas W. Mitchell, who also did the paintings for the Ontario menu shown here a couple of days ago. The back cover painting is unsigned and may have been done by an in-house graphics artist.

Inside, the menu is dated June 13 and was used on the same Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association special train as yesterday’s menu. Yesterday’s was dated June 8, so the train must have been on a transcontinental journey. The simple table d’hôte menu offers a choice of sweetbread patties, sea bass, or filet mignon as entrées and strawberry shortcake, ice cream, or fruit jelly (is that Jello or something more like an Asian fruit jelly?) for dessert.