The first two of today’s menus from the Chung collection are dated 1928. The first two resemble one another enough that they could be considered part of a series. Click image to download a 8.2-MB PDF of this menu. Click … Continue reading
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This small — roughly 6-1/2″x7-1/2″ — breakfast menu was issued in 1928. The front cover is supposed to illustrate was western Canada was like before the coming of the railroad, while on the back cover the Canadian Pacific modestly takes … Continue reading
Canada’s parliament building in Ottawa was largely destroyed by fire in 1916, and rebuilt with some differences from the original. The cover of this menu from the Chung collection shows both the old (in the larger picture) and the new … Continue reading
One of the stirring stories of the construction of the Canadian Pacific was the Reil Rebellion of 1885, in which … Continue reading
The year 1927 was the 60th anniversary of Canadian confederation, and Canadian Pacific celebrated with a series of more than a dozen menus featuring some point in Canadian history — often having to do with the railroad or the more … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s menu, this one from my own collection is based on a lantern slide used by Sylvester Long for his slide shows promoting western Canada. However, the format of this 1927 menu is unlike any I’ve seen before. The … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen two menus — Indian scout and Blackfoot travois — that featured color photos of Indians on the cover with detailed write-ups by Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, who claimed to be a full-blooded Blackfeet Indian. In fact, … Continue reading
Today’s Canadian Pacific city menus from the Chung collection fall into two groups: two have a portrait orientation and three have a landscape orientation. Two of the landscape menus continue with the archway theme that was found in several of … Continue reading
Today’s menus from the Chung collection look different from yesterday’s, mainly because they have a yellow background instead of black. Yet like yesterday’s they each commemorate a city or, in one case, a region. While they also appear to view … Continue reading
In the mid-1920s, Canadian Pacific began to issue a series of menus apparently commemorating major cities (or in some cases, pairs of cities) along its route. In fact, they are actually not-so-subtle ads for Canadian Pacific operations in those cities. … Continue reading