This 1944 menu salutes “the unconquerable breed of Canada,” more than 600,000 of whom were “poised on the battle fronts of Democracy” in World War II. The menu was accompanied by a “sugar and butter rations” notice that “in compliance … Continue reading
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The Tonquin Valley’s “unrivaled” scenery is accessible only on foot or horseback in the summer or by cross-country skis in the winter. This means that few Canadian National passengers ever got to see the view of the mountains, known as … Continue reading
Like a menu shown here a few days ago, this one is eight pages long with the interior four pages printed on slightly smaller paper than the cover. The previous one was for a special tour but this one is … Continue reading
Mt. Edith Cavell in Jasper National Park was named after an English nurse who was working in Belgium when the First World War began. She helped more than 100 wounded British and French soldiers escape German imprisonment, leading the Germans … Continue reading
I don’t collect airline menus, but this one was so pretty I couldn’t resist. When Canadian Pacific Airlines wasn’t using dining car menus, which it rarely did, it usually used menus with pictures of historic airplanes on the covers. However, … Continue reading
This 1928 dining car menu advertises winter cruises on Canadian Pacific steamships. During the summer, those ships served the Montreal-Liverpool route, but in the winter, when that route was too icy, the ships went elsewhere. We’ve previously seen a menu … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover before on a menu from the Chung collection. As I pointed out then, Canadian Pacific ordered 18 dome-observation cars from the Budd Company, each named after a national or provincial park, and decorated the interiors with … Continue reading
Today I have three menus, all for different days on the same voyage of the Empress of Britain as yesterday’s. The first has a photo of the Banff Springs Hotel that we’ve seen before in the upper left corner of … Continue reading
We’ve seen this photograph before in the upper left of the cover on a 1949 menu for the Chateau Lake Louise. Here the photograph is in the center of the cover, and the caption is in the Bodoni type face. … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover photograph before in the upper-left corner of 1950 and 1958 dining car menus. Today’s menu places the same photo in the horizontal center of the cover. Another difference is that the 1950 menu has “Canadian Pacific” … Continue reading