Here’s another menu with a photo — different from the one on the menus shown a few days ago — of the gardens around Canadian Pacific’s Empress Hotel. This menu was actually used at the Empress Hotel and is a … Continue reading
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This dining car menu features the second ship to go by the name Empress of Canada. The first was built in 1920 and sunk during World War II by an Italian submarine when it was carrying, among others, hundreds of … Continue reading
It is possible that the people in the canoe are the same couple who appeared strolling through flowers on the cover of a 1939 menu. If so, the man has taken off his blazer and rolled up the sleeves of … Continue reading
Instead of the Canadian Rockies, this menu features a view of Toronto Union Station and the Royal York Hotel. “The Canadian Pacific Royal York Hotel is a social and commercial centre that dominates the downtown sky-line and overlooks Lake Ontario,” … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific Airlines generally had its own menus that were very different from its dining car menus. But several of these menus from the Chung collection, whose covers were usually found in dining cars, were used on a few special … Continue reading
Our first menu today has a familiar photo of Mt. Eisenhower on the cover. We’ve seen this photo on a cover that was otherwise white, blue and yellow, and there are even more variations out there. It’s possible that Canadian … Continue reading
The Hudson’s Bay Company found coal near Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, and built this little tower, which contained cannon and other defense supplies, in the 1850s to defend its operations. It is a timber-framed building (built without nails) and still … Continue reading
This Banff Springs Hotel lunch menu is dated July 23, 1948. At that time, Canadian Pacific kept its mountain hotels and some other tourist lodgings open only in the summers. Today, of course, they are open year round, with Banff … Continue reading
“First railway company to own and operate its steamships across Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Canadian Pacific is a pioneer in the air, too,” says the back of this menu in somewhat clipped fashion. In 1948, it was operating Douglas DC-3s, … Continue reading
The gigantic Banff Springs Hotel, which had 600 rooms when this 1948 menu was issued (more than 750 today), looks like a toy in this expansive photo taken from the top, or near the top, of Sanson’s Peak. To take … Continue reading