This beautiful cover is a blatant example of bait and switch as the inside of this booklet says almost nothing about resorts in the Rockies. The inside front cover lists 13 Canadian Pacific hotels, only three of which were in the Rockies, and 11 bungalow camps, three of which were not in the Rockies, but doesn’t say anything about any of them in particular.

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The next four pages are timetables for CP’s transcontinental trains: the Trans-Canada Limited, the Imperial, the Vancouver/Toronto Express, and the Mountaineer. The inside back cover describes Canadian Pacific steamships on the Great Lakes and to Alaska. Only the back cover, which has six black-and-white photographs taken around Banff and Lake Louise, comes close to living up to the promise made by the front cover title.

The booklet is undated but some of the timetables say they were “Effective Sunday, May 15.” The Mountaineer had its start in 1923 while the Trans-Canada Limited only operated through 1931. The only year between 1923 and 1931 in which May 15 fell on a Sunday was 1927. The timetables match a 1927 timetable in the Chung collection, confirming this is from that year.