The description of trail riding on the back of this menu doesn’t say so, but the mountain on the cover is Mount Assiniboine, which would place these riders in the British Columbia provincial park of that name, which was created … Continue reading
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Although the front of this menu effectively advertises the golf course associated with the Banff Springs Hotel, the text on the back says nothing about golf. Instead, it claims that Scottish fur traders who first came to the Canadian Rockies … Continue reading
H. Armstrong Roberts (1883-1947) was an American photographer who started Retrofile, one of the first stock photo companies. Today, his photos are owned by Getty Images. Roberts apparently spent a few days at Lake O’Hara and Getty has posted several … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a circa 1929 menu with a painting of a hula dancer on the cover. This cover is less colorful but, I am sure, no less fascinating to the members of the Massachusetts-Rhode Island Knights Templar traveling to … Continue reading
This dining car menu is dated July 17, 1934 and was used on the same tour of the Massachusetts-Rhode Island Knights Templar as yesterday’s menu. Breakfast included sliced peaches; cereals with cream; a choice of salmon, lamb chop, ham, eggs, … Continue reading
St. Andrews in Scotland is known as the “home of golf,” and while the St. Andrews in New Brunswick was not named after the one in Scotland, someone decided to make it into a golf resort as well. They built … Continue reading
Opening in 1906, Winnipeg’s Royal Alexandra Hotel was one of the first Canadian Pacific hotels to depart from the chateau style that characterized such hotels as the Frontenac and Banff Springs. As a result, although luxurious on the inside, it … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific built Place Viger to be its Montreal hotel in 1898. The lower floors also served as CP’s train station. The hotel closed in 1935, and for several decades the railway didn’t have a hotel in Montreal even though … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu cover before from the Chung collection. Today’s menu is from my own collection. The Chung menu was dated 1930 and this one is dated 1928. Both are dinner menus, so they allow us to see how … Continue reading
Here’s a menu we haven’t seen before in what I call the Fresco series, as the cover painting is designed to look like it was painted on a plaster wall. We’ve previously seen a menu in this series featuring winter … Continue reading