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1964 Jasper Lodge Dinner Menu

Posted on May 7, 2023 by Train LoverMarch 29, 2023

Canadian National must have used dozens of different pictures on its Jasper Lodge menus over the years. This menu is from 1964 and shows an aerial view of the lodge, a photo that would have been difficult to take in the early years of the lodge.

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The unpriced menu has a choice of nine entrées preceded by appetizer, soup, and salad accompanied by potatoes and vegetables, and followed by dessert and beverage, resulting in a five-course menu. The entrées include trout, chicken a la king, veal t-bone steak, roast baron of steer, a cold meat platter, and a couple of salads. Continue reading →

Jasper Rates in 1964

Posted on May 6, 2023 by Train LoverMarch 29, 2023

We’ve previously seen a 1959 booklet listing rates at Jasper. This one has the same photos on the outside and inside front covers and the same text on page 3. However, it adds several paragraphs of text advising people “what to wear” in Jasper.

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Room rates were slightly higher in 1964 than 1959. Rates for bus or motor car trips from Jasper to the Columbia Icefield, Lake Louise, and Banff were unchanged; rates to Calgary were slightly higher.

Through Your Picture Window in 1964

Posted on May 5, 2023 by Train LoverMarch 29, 2023

We’ve previously seen a 1958 version of this booklet. This one, from 1964, is smaller: 5-1/2″x7-1/2″ vs. 8-1/4″x10-1/4″ for the 1958 edition. This one is also 32 pages rather than 28, but unlike the 1958 booklet this one is bilingual: half the pages are in English and half in French.

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Fitting 28 pages of material into 16 smaller pages requires some sacrifice, and in this case CN elected to drop ten beautiful color photos while keeping intact around 2,700 words of text that probably was not as avidly scrutinized as the photos. If a picture is worth a thousand words, they lost 10,000 highly persuasive words in order to gain 2,700 French words. I would probably have kept the photos and published two separate booklets, one in English and one in French, but political pressures may have discouraged such “separate but equal” policies in 1964.

Canadian National Fall, 1955 Timetable

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Train LoverMarch 29, 2023

This timetable is 88 pages long. Except for a 1943 CN timetable, that’s by far the longest seen here on Streamliner Memories. Canadian Pacific timetables from this era maxed out at around 68 pages and U.S. railroad timetables were usually even smaller.

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Eight full pages are devoted to transcontinental service between Vancouver and Montreal/Toronto. This was provided by the mostly streamlined Super Continental and the partially streamlined Continental. The latter train took about 12 more hours because it made more stops. Continue reading →

The Triangle Route in 1951

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Train LoverMarch 29, 2023

We’ve previously seen booklets like this one from 1949 and 1952. The text in all three is pretty similar, but the layout and photos used in the 1949 version is quite different from today’s 1951 edition.

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Other than the background colors on the covers, the 1951 and 1952 editions are pretty similar. Curiously, a black-and-white photo on page 2 of today’s booklet appears in color in the 1952 version. A close look reveals the photos were taken from the same location but they are not the same photos nor are they of the same train as the train in the 1952 booklet has a few more cars. Continue reading →

Paintbrush & Lilies

Posted on May 2, 2023 by Train LoverMarch 29, 2023

The back cover of this menu says that the attractive flowers on the front are Indian paintbrush and dog tooth violet. However, according to Wikipedia, dogtooth violet only grows in eastern North America. The yellow flowers in the painting are probably actually dogtooth fawn lily, which are closely enough related to dogtooth violets that someone from eastern Canada might mix them up.

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This menu was used for the Rajah Temple Shriners during a trip from Vancouver to Minneapolis on June 18-24, 1929. The Shriners had held their national convention in Los Angeles in early June, so the train was returning Rajah Shriners to their home in Reading, Pennsylvania. Continue reading →

Across Canada in 1969

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Train LoverMarch 29, 2023

This westbound edition of Canadian Pacific’s along-the-way booklet has some changes from the one presented yesterday. Page 3 has “an artist’s sketch” of CP’s latest hotel, Montreal’s Chateau Champlain, which opened in 1967. This illustration is the same one shown on the cover of a 1966 dining car menu. Text near the hotel illustration notes that “Expo ’67 focussed the eyes of the world on Montreal.”

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The past tense indicates this booklet was published after the exposition, which would mean 1968 or later. A better clue about the date is on page 9, which says that Port Arthur and Fort William would amalgamate on January 1, 1970. The decision to merge on that day was made in the May, 1969 City of Lakehead Act. In late June, a referendum was held to decide whether the new city should be called Lakehead or Thunder Bay. The latter name was selected, which isn’t mentioned in this booklet, indicating that the booklet was published in May or June 1969. Continue reading →

Across Canada in 1963

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Train LoverMarch 29, 2023

While yesterday’s booklet presented information about the route of the Canadian from west to east, today’s has pretty much the same information but arranged from east to west. Unlike yesterday’s, this one is clearly dated 1963 on the back cover. Like yesterday’s, this one has a small box of “Canadian Pacific highlights.” This box, on page 27, presents information about the railway as of 1962.

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Both booklets have the same centerfold map of the world showing Canadian Pacific railway, steamship, and airline routes. Both booklets also have two pages showing the interior of the Canadian in paintings we’ve seen before by Hedley Rainnie (1914-1961). Although some web sites list Rainnie as a Canadian painter, he was born in England and died in London. Continue reading →

Across Canada in 1961

Posted on April 29, 2023 by Train LoverMarch 29, 2023

We’ve previously seen a booklet like this from 1954. That was before the Budd-build Canadian had been delivered, so the cover image was a painting of the train at Morant’s curve near Banff. This edition was clearly after the train had been put into service and the cover photo by Nicolas Morant shows the eastbound train crossing the Stoney Creek Bridge.

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“This location as the train crosses 270 feet above the foaming stream is ideal for photographers to snap the whole train on the curve,” notes the booklet on page 10. In 1988, Canadian Pacific opened a tunnel by-passing the bridge, which is on the east side of the Selkirk Mountains, but still uses it for some eastbound trains. Continue reading →

Chateau Lake Louise Booklet

Posted on April 28, 2023 by Train LoverMarch 24, 2023

Like yesterday’s booklet about the Banff Springs Hotel, this one is filled with warm, color illustrations (but no etchings) of people enjoying the chateau and its surroundings. The art is unsigned but the style is also similar to yesterday’s, so I suspect it is also by Reinhold Palenske.

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Unlike yesterday’s booklet, which was from 1931, this one is dated 1929. In other words, it was almost certainly issued before Canadian Pacific published its “expression” series of hotel booklets. Continue reading →