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 →

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 →