In 1950, just two years after taking over most of Britain’s private railways, British Railways issued a series of booklets encouraging people to ride trains to vacation spots in Britain. This one is for hills and moorlands west of London, … Continue reading
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The White Pass and Yukon was in its seventh year of operation when it put out this booklet describing its rail route from Skaguay (an older spelling) to White Horse by rail and White Horse to Dawson City by steamboat. … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1959 booklet listing rates at Jasper. This one has the same photos on the outside and inside front covers and the same text on page 3. However, it adds several paragraphs of text advising people “what … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen booklets like this one from 1949 and 1952. The text in all three is pretty similar, but the layout and photos used in the 1949 version is quite different from today’s 1951 edition. Click image to download … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s booklet about the Banff Springs Hotel, this one is filled with warm, color illustrations (but no etchings) of people enjoying the chateau and its surroundings. The art is unsigned but the style is also similar to yesterday’s, so … Continue reading
A few days ago, I suggested that using the covers of its booklets and menus advertising its various hotels to publish a political statement claiming its moral superiority over rival Canadian National was poor marketing. Today’s booklet is an example … Continue reading
This booklet is from my own collection. Each of the “expression” booklets advertising Canadian Pacific hotels have a translucent sheet of paper separating the cover from the inside material and advertising the then-forthcoming Empress of Britain. To make this easier … Continue reading
Yesterday’s booklet about the York Hotel and its 1,000 rooms raises a question that I have mentioned before: why didn’t Canadian Pacific build a similar hotel in Montreal? Not only was Montreal its headquarters city, it was Canada’s second-largest city … Continue reading
The York Hotel was brand-new when this series of booklets and menus was published, having opened in June, 1929. The Canadian Pacific should have made this opening of the facility it billed as the “largest hotel in the British Empire” … Continue reading
“Built in the matter of an eighteenth century French chateau,” says this booklet, the Frontenac was the epitome of a chateau-style hotel. Originally built in 1893 but expanded with construction of the central tower in 1924, it had 567 rooms … Continue reading