The front cover of this menu shows Sentinel Peak, which the caption says is visible from “the well-marked mountain trails that radiate from the Chateau.” The back cover shows the Chateau Lake Louise itself. The menu was used in the … Continue reading
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Here is an Empress menu showing Windsor Castle. While yesterday’s menu was used on the Empress of Scotland on August 21, 1954, this one was used two days later, August 23. Click image to download a 893-KB PDF of this … Continue reading
On her return voyage from Scotland, Helen Hruska saved this menu showing Balmoral, a residence in Scotland that is unusual in that it is actually owned by the queen and not part of the crown estate. The land was purchased … Continue reading
We’ve seen a painting of this ship before on a 1937 menu, at which time it was called the Empress of Japan, having been built in 1930 to serve Canadian Pacific between Vancouver and Yokohama and other Pacific ports. With … Continue reading
Dominion Atlantic is the company that created Evangeline Park, which is now part of the Grand-PrĂ© National Historic Site. Most of the history there was invented by the railroad taking advantage of a popular Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem. Though Dominion … Continue reading
A few days ago we had a menu with a black-and-white photo of horseback riders in Assiniboine Provincial Park. Today we have a color photo of skiers in the same park. The previous menu was probably from before 1935, meaning … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen that this colorized photo of a train in Kicking Horse Pass appeared on two slightly different menu covers: one with a script font and one with Bodoni font. The copy of the script font menu I previously … Continue reading
Chief George Kian (sometimes spelled Kyan) was born in the 1880s and died in 1955. At some point, he commissioned this pole which consists of a crane on top, a thunderbird in the middle, and a brown bear — his … Continue reading
Here’s a menu featuring the Banff Springs Hotel on the cover that was actually used at the Banff Springs Hotel. As far as I can tell, this particular menu cover was used exclusively at the hotel and not on Canadian … Continue reading
This menu advertises Toronto’s Royal York Hotel, the largest in the CP hotel chain and, in fact, the largest in the British Empire at the time. The menu was used in the dining car of CP’s premiere passenger train, the … Continue reading