Yesterday’s booklet about the York Hotel and its 1,000 rooms raises a question that I have mentioned before: why didn’t Canadian Pacific build a similar hotel in Montreal? Not only was Montreal its headquarters city, it was Canada’s second-largest city … Continue reading
The York Hotel was brand-new when this series of booklets and menus was published, having opened in June, 1929. The Canadian Pacific should have made this opening of the facility it billed as the “largest hotel in the British Empire” … Continue reading
“Built in the matter of an eighteenth century French chateau,” says this booklet, the Frontenac was the epitome of a chateau-style hotel. Originally built in 1893 but expanded with construction of the central tower in 1924, it had 567 rooms … Continue reading
Wikipedia says the 1916 Hotel Vancouver was built in an Italian Renaissance style. It was replaced in 1939 by an even grander chateau-style hotel. This contrasts with the Royal Alexandra, which was closed in 1967 and not replaced, leaving Canadian … Continue reading
The Chateau style of the Empress Hotel, featured in yesterday’s booklet, as well as the Chateau Frontenac, has always been a favorite. This contrasts sharply to the more blocky style of Winnipeg’s Royal Alexandra Hotel even though the Alexandra was … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a menu whose cover is almost identical to this booklet. Nothing on the two covers discloses whether they are a booklet or a menu. We’ve also seen a booklet similar to this one that has Lake Louise … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s tourist class was supposed to be a cut above third class but not quite as good as second class. Normally third class consisted of shared rooms with 8 to 12 beds. CP’s tourist-class rooms had just two to … Continue reading
After World War II, Canadian Pacific resumed its West Indies and Mediterranean cruises from New York but not its world or South America-Africa cruises. The earliest cruises documents in the Chung collection are from 1953, but it seems likely that … Continue reading
As noted yesterday, Canadian Pacific doesn’t seem to have held a Mediterranean from New York in 1939, probably due to European troubles. Instead, the company offered a summer cruise of major North American destinations, including Cuba, Panama, Mexico, Hawaii, and … Continue reading
Unlike the booklets advertising the world cruises, the 1930s West Indies cruise booklets we’ve seen didn’t have lavish paintings on their covers. However, the Mediterranean cruise booklets are more impressive. This may be because the West Indies cruises were short, … Continue reading
