If Jasper was closed during the war, this was the first CN booklet about the park since 1942. The booklet barely mentions the war except to brag that the entire golf course was rebuilt during that troubled time. Click image … Continue reading
Canada declared war on Germany in September, 1939, but that apparently had no immediate affect on Jasper Lodge. CN booklets for 1940 and 1941 don’t mention the war. However, this one, from 1942, has a paper glued to the cover … Continue reading
This undated booklet is similar in many ways to the 1926 booklet presented a couple of days ago. It has the same format — a half-page photo and a smaller photo with a few paragraphs of text on most pages. … Continue reading
Golf, swimming, hiking, saddle trips, motor trips, boat trips, dancing, and motion pictures are just some of the things this booklet says were available to do in Jasper in 1936. The prices seem incredibly low — $2 for a round … Continue reading
The 1933 edition of CN’s Triangle Route booklet has the same painting of a CN train in Jasper Park that was on the front cover of yesterday’s booklet. Otherwise, however, the text has been mostly rewritten, most of the black-and-white … Continue reading
Canadian National titled its 1932 booklet advertising trips to Alaska and the Yukon “The Land of the Midnight Sun.” This shouldn’t be confused with postcard-sized welcome-aboard booklets for its Alaska steamships that were titled just “Midnight Sun.” This booklet is … Continue reading
We saw a 1928 edition of this on-board booklet for cruises to southeast Alaska a few days ago. This one has a much nicer cover, but many of the interior pages are similar. i>Click image to download an 6.5-MB PDF … Continue reading
Here’s another Canadian National booklet about Jasper that is not from my collection. I downloaded this one from archive.org. I didn’t like the way they had laid it out, so I cleaned it up a little and made it into … Continue reading
Canadian National and Canadian Pacific each had their own West Coast triangle routes. Canadian Pacific’s, as we saw a few months ago, consisted of steamships between Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle. Canadian National’s, as shown in this 1930 booklet, went by … Continue reading
Being a sucker for color, I really like the cover of this booklet about trips to Alaska on the Inside Passage. Inside, a portion of the front cover is echoed on the title page in orange, a color used for … Continue reading
