This menu gives no explanation of what an Indian in Sioux regalia is doing at the Banff Springs Hotel, but of course, none is needed: that’s what the tourists, conditioned by cowboy-and-Indian movies, wanted to see. In fact, authentic Blackfeet … Continue reading
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Marked for the Mountaineer, our first menu offered beverages on the left side and a la carte on the right. Table d’hôte meals were listed on a separate insert, which is included. The table d’hôte offerings included fruit, chicken, or … Continue reading
In 1939, Canadian Pacific issued a poster advertising skiing in Quebec featuring what appears to be a studio photo (there’s no trace of snow anywhere) of a woman with ski goggles and ski poles. Someone then overlaid a version of … Continue reading
Here are four menus from the Chung collection that might be members of some series, but we don’t have enough examples to know for sure. The first two, however, do look pretty similar. Click image to download a 2.2-MB PDF … Continue reading
The hotel depicted on the cover of this menu was the second to be named Hotel Vancouver. It opened in 1916 and was replaced by the current Hotel Vancouver in 1939. However, this undated dinner menu is even older than … Continue reading
This unusual folder looks like a menu, but inside is filled with tiny type listing and briefly describing 76 different named salads. I’ve only heard of two of them: Nicoise and Waldorf. Several others may have Canadian Pacific connections, including … Continue reading
These two large (9″x12″) menus were used in the Chateau Frontenac, Canadian Pacific’s Quebec City hotel. This first is an eight-page lunch menu, whose inside front covers have photos showing tobogganing and skiing (or ski-ing, as the Canadian Pacific spelled … Continue reading
This menu advertises CP’s great ship in its heyday, when it was carrying a couple of trainloads of passengers between Liverpool and St. Johns, New Brunswick per five-day trip. The painting doesn’t has a signature because the bottom portion was … Continue reading
The cover painting of this menu is signed “L. Richmond,” which refers to Leonard Richmond (1889-1965), a British artist who painted trains and ocean liners for Canadian Pacific, though he preferred to do landscapes like this one when he was … Continue reading
This unusual dining car menu is undated, but from the inside decorations it is from sometime before 1938. I have a 1931 menu that offers a “Red brand” sirloin steak for $1.50 and a 1937 menu that lists it for … Continue reading