Although my focus is on dining car menus, these Chung collection menus used on the Canadian Pacific steamships are so pretty that I wanted to include them as well. Since these steamship cruises were advertised on yesterday’s dining car menus, now seems an appropriate time. All of these menus are from 1932.

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First up is a breakfast menu card that was used on the Empress of Australia. It features Mount Assiniboine, which remains only accessible after an arduous, 17-mile hike from the nearest road. Its prominence on so many Canadian Pacific menus must be due to its resemblance to the famous Matterhorn. Continue reading →

Today’s menus both have covers painted by Gordon Fraser Gillespie (1891-1965), an artist who worked on commission to CP starting in 1913 and eventually became a full-time CP artist. In 1948, he was placed in charge of all commercial art for the railroad. We’ve previously seen a 1931 dining car menu advertising Alaska cruises whose cover painting is unsigned but looks like Gillespie’s style.

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The first menu is from the Chung Collection and advertises the Empress of Australia‘s “sixth annual around the world cruise.” This cruise lasted from December 1928 through March 1929 and visited dozens of cities. A painting on the back cover shows the Empress and is signed “Gillespie.” This breakfast menu was used on a CP dining car. Continue reading →

This small — roughly 6-1/2″x7-1/2″ — breakfast menu was issued in 1928. The front cover is supposed to illustrate was western Canada was like before the coming of the railroad, while on the back cover the Canadian Pacific modestly takes credit for all of the growth of the nation west of Lake Huron since the 1880s.

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The menu itself, which is from my own collection is all a la carte and ranges from milk and cereal for 20 cents to a sirloin steak for $1.50. Other items include Finnan Haddie, fish cakes, fried oysters with bacon, and French toast with Canadian honey. Multiply prices by 11.5 to get today’s U.S. dollars.

One of the stirring stories of the construction of the Canadian Pacific was the Reil Rebellion of 1885, in which Métis people — that is, people of mixed European and aboriginal ancestry — and natives who lived in what is now Manitoba attempted to form their own government because they did not believe the Canadian government was protecting their rights. The Canadian Pacific Railway was not yet complete, but it was fully graded on Fort Garry (later known as Winnipeg), which made it possible for Canada to send 4,000 troops to the area to suppress the rebellion.

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The first menu from the Chung collection today shows some scenes from this troop movement. Where rails existed, troops traveled on ballast cars. Where no rails had yet been laid, they traveled in sleighs or marched. The smaller image of the steamship recalls a more difficult movement of troops to suppress a previous rebellion in 1869. Continue reading →

Like yesterday’s menu, this one from my own collection is based on a lantern slide used by Sylvester Long for his slide shows promoting western Canada. However, the format of this 1927 menu is unlike any I’ve seen before. The picture below is actually the back cover. The front cover is a flap about half the width of the rest of the menu with the upper corner cut off at about a 45-degree angle. Unfortunately, it was damaged by being pasted in a scrapbook, but I’ve used Photoshop to repair as much of the damage as I can.

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The front and back of the flap has a description of “Indian medicine practice” written by Long, the man who falsely claimed to be a Blackfeet Indian chief. While his description may be generally accurate, he doesn’t specifically identify the person in this photo. Continue reading →