Here’s a Canadian industry I can get enthusiastic about. The back cover says that 1,666,880 gallons of maple syrup were produced in Quebec alone in 1929. This suggests that this menu, which is otherwise undated, is from 1930. Click image … Continue reading
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We’ve previously seen menus from the Chung collection in this series showing lumbering, pulp and paper, water power, and grain. Today we have one contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader featuring smelting. Click image to download a 9.4-MB PDF of … Continue reading
This menu is apparently part of Canadian Pacific’s city series, which included menus for many of the major cities along the CP. I’ve previously shown a dozen menus in this series dating from 1926 to 1928. All but one or … Continue reading
What is now Banff National Park was created as Rocky Mountains National Park in 1887 and was renamed Banff (probably to avoid confusion with other parks in the Canadian Rockies) in 1930. The back of this 1928 menu seems confused … Continue reading
Today’s menu features a collage of photos from Canada’s Atlantic provinces. “Sun on sand and sea, glinting fishing stream and green golf course — there’s fun and warm hospitality in Canada’s Atlantic provinces,” says the caption. Click image to download … Continue reading
Here’s another in Canadian National’s series of tall menus — they are 5-1/4″ wide by 11-3/4″ tall — that were issued in the mid-1960s. This one, dated October, 1965, has a collage of photos on the front cover showing “life … Continue reading
Red, white, and blue are the colors of the American flag. But they were also the colors of the Canadian flag, which incorporated the British union jack, before 1965. For those Canadians who felt they owed more allegiance to France … Continue reading
The color photo on this menu features totem poles in Wrangell, Alaska, a scene that was also covered on one of the color painting menus. The back cover doesn’t advertise Jasper but instead has a photo of PercĂ© Rock on … Continue reading
Sometime in the late 1950s CN replaced the color illustrations that appeared on the covers of their Alaska steamship menus with color photos instead. These photos were accompanied by some text and graphics, making them similar to some dining car … Continue reading
Here’s a Jasper Lodge dinner menu whose cover photo we haven’t seen before. It shows the lounge of the Jasper Park Lodge, “a nice place to relax.” The Northwest Indian art over the fireplace is nice, but the rest of … Continue reading