Although this brochure was clearly issued by the White Pass & Yukon Route, only one of the five panels (other than the cover) actually features White Pass trains between Skagway and Whitehorse. The others deal with the Alaska ferry system, … Continue reading
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In 1965, Canadian Pacific still advertised train travel to families using a 16-page brochure originally designed when the streamlined Canadian was introduced in in the mid-1950s. But it also took advantage of the sexual revolution to advertise the “romance of … Continue reading
This 1965 brochure pictures and describes seven chateau-style hotels, three plainer urban hotels built in the early 20th century, and two motor lodges. The brochure also describes two high-rise modernist hotels then under construction, one in Edmonton scheduled to open … Continue reading
This 1960 brochure unfolds into the equivalent of 16 8×9-pages, most of which are dedicated to color photos of Jasper Lodge and the scenery around it. In line with the “picture yourself” theme, both the cover and the back of … Continue reading
This large brochure folds up so that an image of a beautiful wooden Indian bow appears behind the cover scene of a young couple overlooking the Athabasca River in Jasper National Park. This seems like a clever idea except for … Continue reading
During the 1950s and 1960s, the Canadian Pacific liked to call itself “the world’s most complete travel system” as it had trains, ships, trucks, and planes. One side of this brochure focuses on the trains, with Chesley Bonestell’s painting of … Continue reading
This brochure is undated, but it potentially could be from any year between the late 1930s and 2014 as the Algoma Central is unique among North American railroads in that it still offered passenger service along its entire length in … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific used this colorful brochure to lure postwar tourists to Banff, Lake Louise, and other Rocky Mountain sites reachable by its trains. The brochure folds out to be effectively eight 8″x9″ pages long. For some reason, CP marketing decided … Continue reading
There’s no date on this brochure, but based on the black-and-white photos that litter the back, and the fact that I have a similarly formatted 1949 brochure that I’ll post in a few days that has almost all color photos, … Continue reading
This 1950 brochure is much like yesterday’s Land of the Pueblos brochure, with a color cover and mostly black-and-yellow photos. It does include one color photo of the Grand Canyon, but it is so washed out that it is no … Continue reading