Dated August 27, 1949, this menu has the same exterior format as the Banff Springs Hotel menus dated two days later. The interior seems cheerier and more informal than the Banff menus, but a close examination reveals the main difference … Continue reading
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This menu features the controversially named Mt. Eisenhower on the cover. As previously noted, the rocky outcropping was named Castle Mountain in 1858, then renamed Mt. Eisenhower in 1946, then restored to its earlier name in 1979. Click image to … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s menu, this one was used in the Alhambra Room of the Banff Springs Hotel. In fact, the interiors of the menus are identical, both being dated August 29, 1949. Click image to download a 1.9-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
Unlike the previous Indian Days menu, which was used aboard the Mountaineer‘s dining car, this menu is from the Alhambra Room of the Banff Springs Hotel. Today, that room is used as a meeting room rather than a restaurant. Click … Continue reading
This menu is undated but shows the Super Continental in Canadian National’s pre-1961 paint scheme so must be from 1960 or a few years before. Jason Shron, of Rapido Trains, says that this paint scheme is the most popular one … Continue reading
This menu was used on a Canadian National steamship to Alaska in 1956. That date means that the ship was either the Prince Rupert or the Prince George. Prince Rupert would have been the same ship that carried yesterday’s menu, … Continue reading
This menu was used on the Canadian National steamship Prince Rupert between Vancouver and Skagway, Alaska in 1943. Along with a sister ship named Prince George, the SS Prince Rupert had been built in England in 1910 for the Grand … Continue reading
This menu cover shows an upper reach of the Kicking Horse River, which the Canadian Pacific followed from its source at Wapta Lake to Golden, BC, where the river emptied into the Columbia. The back of the menu says that … Continue reading
I grew up in Portland, Oregon and loved to visit Multnomah Falls and other waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge. When I read that Takakkaw Falls in British Columbia was more than twice as high as Multnomah, I had to … Continue reading
The story goes that in 1889 a rockslide temporarily blocked the rail line, leaving passengers stranded at Banff. To keep the passengers entertained, the railway hired the nearby Stoney Indians to dance for them. The event was so successful that … Continue reading