We’ve previously seen images of Mount Edith Cavell on a 1927 dining car menu and a 1947 Jasper Lodge menu. However, this is the first one I recall that shows the mountain as seen from Jasper Lodge.

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At just over 11,000 feet, Mount Edith isn’t the highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies, but it still towers more than 7,500 feet above the Athabaskan River, which flows through Jasper. From Jasper it is just one of numerous mountains that surround the Athabaska Valley.

The highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies is Mount Robson, which as pictured on this 1947 menu is much more dominant over the nearby Fraser River. At nearly 13,000 feet, Robson was more than 9,800 feet above Canadian National’s Mount Robson station, which was a jumping-off point for many hikers.

People who wanted to try to climb Mount Robson itself would have been better off going to Emperor, a station on the other side of the Fraser River. While the Mount Robson station was on the Vancouver line (former Canadian Northern route), Emperor was on the Prince Rupert line (former Grand Trunk route), the two having diverged a few miles east and paralleled one another on opposite sides of the Fraser River for several miles.

The photograph on this menu could be detached from the menu and used as a postcard to send to friends and relatives. The menu itself is dated July 7, 1966, and offered four appetizers, three soups, six entrées, vegetables or tossed salad, and a number of desserts.