Lunch on August 24 featured gaffelbiters (pickled herring), lobster on the half shell, and honeycomb tripe. We’ve seen this cover photo before on a Banff Springs Hotel menu.
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Lunch for August 26 used another menu cover we haven’t seen before, this one featuring a Diesel-powered train, probably the Dominion, passing through the Rocky Mountains. The back cover claims that Canadian Pacific follows a “water-level route” through the Rockies, but that is quite a stretch, as Kicking Horse Pass, at 5,338 feet, was higher than Great Northern’s Marias Pass (5,213 feet) and much higher than the Canadian National route over Yellowhead Pass (just 3,711 feet). Continue reading