We’ve seen this menu before, at which time I dated it to 1956. I now think they were from 1954. The clue is the ad on the back bragging about CN’s order for “359 new passenger cars.” This dates it to 1954, when when CN placed what it called a “record purchase of new passenger equipment.”
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We’ve seen an advertisement bragging about this purchase from the March, 1954, National Geographic. Below is a follow-up ad providing more detail from the April issue of the same magazine. Continue reading