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 a new PDF. The booklet they scanned was bound in a hard cover, so a fraction of the interior could not be copied. Fortunately, that only affected the front and back cover; notice the “C” in “Canadian National” is partly cut off.

Click image to download an 16.4-MB PDF of this 36-page booklet.

The booklet has a more lively layout than yesterday’s from 1928. While most of the pages in the 1928 booklet had a half-page square photo and a half-page of text, this one has photos cut into a variety of shapes, with sometimes one and sometimes several photos per page. I don’t know why it was once popular to use electrically bright colors to represent nature, as shown on the front and back covers, but we’ve seen it before on some Burlington booklets from the same era.

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 trim throughout the booklet. Otherwise, the photos and graphics are printed in black-and-white.

Click image to download a 7.1-MB PDF of this 24-page booklet.

We’ve previously seen a CN Alaska booklet from 1928. This one appears to be more polished, with a much more attractive cover and better layout inside. Although it is four pages longer, there seems to be less text, and with more white space the text is easier to read.

Though both are ostensibly about Jasper National Park, this booklet is very different from yesterday’s. In fact, despite the title on both the front and back covers, less than four pages of this booklet are about Jasper Park. The rest is about a train trip to Vancouver, steamship to Prince Rupert, and then the train from Rupert back to Jasper. This is what CN had called the “Triangle Tour” at least since 1923, although that term is only briefly mentioned in this booklet.

Click image to download a 7.2-MB PDF of this 20-page booklet.

This is one of those booklets where the main cover, shown above, is actually the back cover. The front cover is mostly text but also has a small color painting of Jasper Lodge. Inside, in addition to many black-and-white photos and graphics, are two more color paintings, both in the centerfold. Continue reading →

We’ve seen booklets with this title before dated 1937 and 1950, both of which had covers decorated with identical images of a totem pole, mountain, and an abstract sun, though in different colors. This one has a very different cover, but much of the interior content is the same. Unlike the later editions, the back cover of this one is an advertisement for Jasper Park Lodge.

Click image to download an 7.2-MB PDF of this 32-page booklet.

“When your voyage is ended, may you take this booklet with you, that it may serve as a fitting moment of a happy summer’s cruise, spent as a guest of Canadian National Steamships.” Is that a grammatical error or did the writer really intend to say “may you take” rather than “you may take”? Unfortunately, the same invitation isn’t found in the 1937 edition, so we may never know.

We’ve already seen a 1927 booklet about Jasper National Park. That one was large — almost 8″x11″ — and contained several color illustrations. Today’s booklet is also from 1927, but it is smaller — about 5-1/2″x7-3/4″ — and has no color illustrations except for on the covers.

i>Click image to download an 8.4-MB PDF of this 36-page booklet.

Today’s also seems to be more about the lodge than the park. The front cover doesn’t say so, but the title page and the back cover both say “Jasper Park Lodge.” Still, the interior pages, most of which have half-page black-and-white photos, are as much about what people can do in the park as the facilities at the lodge itself. Continue reading →