More 1939 Banner Tour Menus

We’ve seen these three menu covers before, but they came with yesterday’s Royal Train menu, so I’m including them here together. All four menus were used on an American Express Banner Tour.

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The first is a breakfast menu dated September 21, 1939 (the morning after the dinner shown on the Royal Train menu). We’ve seen this cover on another 1939 menu. The Hotel Vancouver bears a striking resemblance to Toronto’s Royal York Hotel even though they were designed by different architects. This menu offers a choice of sole, calf’s liver, ham, bacon, or eggs, any of which came with juice, fruit, cereal, bread, and beverage.

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The second menu shows Evangeline at the Well, a painting we’ve previously seen on another Banner Tour menu from 1940. Today’s is a breakfast menu dated September 23, which means we somehow missed a day of menus. It offers similar choices to the previous breakfast menu but substitutes griddle cakes for calf’s liver.

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Finally, we have a lunch menu, also dated September 23, featuring Victoria’s Empress Hotel on the cover. Like Evangeline, we’ve previously seen this cover on a 1940 Banner Tour menu. This one offers trout, chicken salad, calf’s liver, or “assorted cold meats.”


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