This menu dedicated to the Maritime provinces — which the back cover explains are Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island — has a painting of eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century sailing ships on the front cover and an industrial port scene, with what appears to be an oil refinery, on the back cover.

Click image to download a 1.2-MB PDF of this menu.

Unlike yesterday’s Prairie Provinces menu, both of the paintings on this one are signed McLean. That would be Thomas Wesley McLean (1881-1951), who was born in Kendal, Ontario. He studied art in Toronto and painted scenes in Algonquin National Park. His interest in the park attracted other artists who together formed the Algonquin School of Art.

In 1912, McLean was hired to head Brigden’s art department in Winnipeg and he painted there for 15 years. But he returned to Toronto in 1927 and lived there for the rest of his life. The fact that both McLean and Mitchell, who painted the British Columbia and Ontario menu covers, are associated with Brigden’s suggested that CN acquired the rights to these paintings from that commercial art company.

The other menus in this series had something recognizable as a background on the covers, whether it was mountains or merely a section of a slab of wood. However, I can’t make out what the blog on the cover of this menu is supposed to be. It doesn’t look like a sea shell, a ship’s sail, or anything else that might be associated with the east coast of Canada.

This menu has the same date and same offerings as yesterday’s. This is the last menu I have in this “National Way” series. While it is possible that others exist, I suspect not, as these five menus pretty much cover all of the Canadian provinces as they were in 1921.