This menu featuring the SuperContinental on its cover may have been intended for use on a National Railway Historical Society (NRHS) trip in 1959. The inside offers table d’hôte meals of salmon, baked chicken, and prime rib for $3.25 each … Continue reading
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Here’s a dinner menu from the same rail fan trip that was served by yesterday’s breakfast menu. This menu uses a much more picturesque photo on the cover. Central British Columbia’s Cariboo District, incidentally, is named for the Cariboo Mountains … Continue reading
The National Railway Historical Society took a trip from Toronto to Niagara Falls on August 31, 1958, and this breakfast menu was used on the trip. For $1.95 (about $16.50 in today’s money), passengers could get ham or bacon and … Continue reading
In 1914, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway built a hotel in Minaki, a resort area in northwestern Ontario. The hotel burned to the ground in 1925, and Grand Trunk successor Canadian National rebuilt it into a major lodge that opened … Continue reading
This is a peculiar menu. First, it is 12 pages long, with eight pages (two sheets of paper) stitched into the cover, yet half of the pages are blank or nearly blank. Second, it is printed in both English and … Continue reading
Despite the cover, this menu was not used in le Chateau Champlain but on board a Canadian Pacific dining car. The menu is marked “1-2, 5-6,” which refers to the Canadian and the Expo Limited, a second transcontinental train (since … Continue reading
This 1957 menu for what was presumably a trip between Canada and Europe contrasts sharply with CP’s hotel and dining car menus. Since the price of meals was included in the fare, the menu offers table d’hôte only with five … Continue reading
Here’s one more menu from the Chateau Lake Louise, this one dated September 11, 1949. The menu has the usual combination of five hot and three cold entrées on the table d’hôte side and nine hot and four cold on … Continue reading
This menu cover displays the newly renamed Mount Eisenhower, formerly known as Castle Mountain. The older name would be restored in 1979, either because people were forgetting about World War II or because they hadn’t forgotten their anger when the … Continue reading
The car in the photo looks old fashioned even for 1949. But I’m pretty sure it is a 1948 or 1949 Dodge Coronet. Dodge and other Chrysler products were late to follow the low lines pioneered by Studebaker and Kaiser … Continue reading