Nova Scotia’s Pictou Lodge was built in 1926 and quickly purchased by Canadian National, which operated it as a summer resort. The hotel still existed through 2022, but sadly it was “permanently closed” due to 2022 damage from Hurricane Fiona. … Continue reading
In about 1949, some dunderhead at CN replaced the beautiful photographs that graced many of the railroad’s dining car menus with a boring geometric design and an interior theme of “meals on wheels.” I previously called a 1949 breakfast menu … Continue reading
This is part of the same menu series as yesterday’s Rocky Mountains menu. The CN menu series page also shows menu covers for British Columbia, western Canada, Ontario, and the Maritimes, so I speculated that there must be one in … Continue reading
The Canadian National menu series page lists this as a “missing menu.” Fortunately, Brian Leiteritz was able to fill in the gap. Click image to download a 1.4-MB PDF of this menu. The menus in this series — British Columbia, … Continue reading
Here’s a Jasper Lodge menu we haven’t seen before. It shows a golfer taking a second or third shot to the green. Jasper’s golf course was designed by Stanley Thompson, who designed a total of 178 golf courses, mostly in … Continue reading
We’ve seen these menu covers before, but they came with the breakfast menus presented here yesterday so I’m showing them here since the interiors are different. Like yesterday’s menus, these were used during wartime, so they provide a contrast with … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen many dinner menus used on Canadian National steamships to Alaska, but I believe these are the first breakfast menus. These probably aren’t representative of foods served to Alaska tourists as they are dated February 1945, which is … Continue reading
Describing Canada’s army as “the dagger pointed at the heart of Berlin,” this menu lauds the “Ram,” a tank designed and produced in Canada and pictured on the menu cover. “The Ram is a 31-ton fortress armed with a tank-killing … Continue reading
Here are two menus whose covers we’ve seen before but the interiors are a little different. In the case of the first menu, the emphasis is on “little.” We’ve previously seen a 1938 menu with this cover. Click image to … Continue reading
During his royal tour of Canada, King George VI unveiled a memorial to soldiers fallen in the Great War. The two-decade tardiness of this memorial suggests that its real purpose was to bolster Canadian support for the newest war that … Continue reading
