This Canadian Pacific menu, with its diagonal photographs, is a style I haven’t seen before. Dated May 30, 1955, it says it was used on a “special train” for a Southland Life Insurance Company trip to Banff. Click image to … Continue reading
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These menus are dated June 20 and June 22, 1954, which puts them midway through the Empress of Scotland‘s seven-day voyage from Liverpool to Montreal. The Empress was launched in 1930 as the Empress of Japan, but of course the … Continue reading
Here are two more menus which, like the menus shown in the past three days, are dated July 11, 1954 and have the same dinner offerings. We’ve also seen both of the cover photos on other menus. Click image to … Continue reading
This menu has the same photograph as one of yesterday’s menus, but that one had a white border around the sides and top of the photo while this one prints the photo up to the edges of the menu cover. … Continue reading
“Does this picture of lovely Lake Louise make you feel strenuous?” asks the photo caption. By that they mean “energetic,” but that’s not how I would use the word “strenuous.” Maybe it’s a Canadian thing. Click image to download a … Continue reading
We’ve seen this photograph before on a 1951 dining car menu that was a very different format, which a horizontal fold so that the image could fill more of the cover. This menu, like those of the preceding days, was … Continue reading
Here in all its ugly grandeur is the Chateau Lake Louise in a photo showing just how out of place it was and is in the mountainous Banff National Park. While the Banff Springs Hotel resembles the rustic style of … Continue reading
This menu, which was used at the Chateau, is undated, but it came with others from 1954 so I presume it is from that year. At 7″ by 9-3/4″, it is a little smaller than the 8″x11″ dining car menus … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific proudly began operating the Empress of Australia in 1953, cross-promoting it with these 1954 menus. But the ship was hardly new, having been originally launched in 1924 as the SS De Grasse. For Canadian Pacific, the ship was … Continue reading
Steamship service between Seattle, Vancouver, and Victoria (and later just Seattle and Victoria) was long provided by a series of ships called the Princess Marguerite. The first vessel of that name was pressed into service as a troop ship in … Continue reading