This menu dedicated to the Maritime provinces — which the back cover explains are Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island — has a painting of eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century sailing ships on the front cover and an industrial … Continue reading
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At first glance, this menu appears to be in the same series as the ones shown in the past three days, but it does have a couple of differences. Like the others, it has a front-cover painting of a historic … Continue reading
The front cover of this menu shows a graffiti artist practicing his trade in front of some other hooligans while the back cover shows Canadian National’s Vancouver train station, which offered huge expanses of stone walls for aspiring graffiti artists. … Continue reading
This menu is similar in format to yesterday’s: a front-cover painting purporting to show a historic scene and a back-cover painting showing a similar scene in the present day wrapped around a separate menu paper with a blurb about CN … Continue reading
In January 1921, when this menu was printed, Canadian National was barely 18 months old and consisted of a variety of bankrupt railroads. Obviously trying to find an identify for itself in face of competition from the mighty Canadian Pacific, … Continue reading
Here’s a menu in what I call the Artist’s Series. We’ve previously seen Shakespeare, John Constable, and Robert Burns, all of which were dated 1957. This one honors John Milton and is dated 1961. Since all of the other steamship … Continue reading
The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is sometimes known as the ambassador to the Court of St. James’s. This name is derived from St. James’s Palace, the oldest royal palace in London (which for some reason the menu spells … Continue reading
We’ve seen this photograph before on a 1941 menu in what I call the Bodoni series (with vertical lines framing the photo) as well as on this 1947 menu in what I call the Center Portrait series, which also had … Continue reading
M. Leone Bracker preferred to draw real people, not models. This suggests somewhere on the Canadian prairie lived a farm family who looked like the people on the cover of this menu. Canadian Pacific must have offered Bracker a pass … Continue reading
Just as yesterday’s Angus Shops menu represented Canadian Pacific’s railroad operations, the Empress of Japan menu represented its steamships, so this menu, with Banff Springs Hotel on the cover, represents its hotel operations. Thanks to Canadian Pacific, “from one end … Continue reading