Located in the rainy Northwest, Victoria is home to many gardens, some of which surround Canadian Pacific’s Empress Hotel. These two 1948 dining car menus present a view of these gardens. Click image to download a 849-KB PDF of this … Continue reading
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The ship portrayed in the painting on this menu is the second to be called Empress of Canada. The first was built in 1920, while the ship shown here was built just eight years later and originally called the Duchess … Continue reading
Most of the menus we’ve seen for tour groups on Canadian Pacific trains used the same colorful folders that were provided for ordinary diners. But for some reason this 1947 American Express Banner Tour of the West only rated a … Continue reading
Jackfish Curve is a 180-degree turn around the end of an inlet on Lake Superior known as Tunnel Bay, after the tunnel that the train is emerging from at the bottom of the photo. The water in the background is … Continue reading
Evangeline Park was a memorial to the forced deportation of French-speaking Acadians from Nova Scotia at the end of the French & Indian War, which is sort of like having a U.S. memorial to the Dred Scott Decision. But Henry … Continue reading
The introduction of Kodachrome film in 1935 revolutionized railroad advertising, and some the results can be seen on Canadian Pacific menus. The oldest photo-based menus that I’ve found are from 1938. Today’s menus from the Chung collection start in 1939. … Continue reading
I have three menus today with a winter photo of Canadian Pacific’s Quebec City hotel that I don’t think we’ve seen before. The first is a 1946 lunch menu that was used on the CN-CP pool trains between Montreal and … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific built a lodge at Emerald Lake in 1902 and it still exists, although the current lodge appears to have expanded considerably from what is pictured on this menu cover. Of course, the lodge was closed in 1945 due … Continue reading
Emerald Lake was discovered by an early guide named Thomas Wilson. Wilson got his start working as an assistant for A.B. Rodgers, who surveyed the Canadian Pacific route over the Rockies. Wilson discovered and named two different lakes Emerald Lake, … Continue reading
It’s October, 1945, and the war is officially over. But that may not have been true when this menu was designed, as the back cover speaks of the war in the present tense. The recreationists shown on the front cover … Continue reading