Here’s a beautiful menu cover we haven’t seen before, nor have I seen any other menus that would be in this same series. Although the interior of the 1951 Mountaineer menu is the same orientation as other Canadian Pacific menus, … Continue reading
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We’ve seen this menu cover before on a 1949 Mountaineer dinner menu. Here are two more uses of it, one on a 1950 lunch menu and one on a 1951 breakfast menu. Click image to download a 1.2-MB PDF of … Continue reading
This spectacular photo of the Banff Springs Hotel shows it in relation to its golf course, the Bow River, and nearby mountains. Although some menus with this cover might have been used in the hotel itself, these two were both … Continue reading
Although this menu is only slightly larger in size than the breakfast menus shown a couple of days ago, Canadian Pacific has substituted photos for paintings, simplified the interior design, and dedicated the back cover to describing the subject of … Continue reading
This menu has a completely different format from Canadian Pacific menus we’ve seen previously. While most are folded once to about 6-3/4″ x 9″ in size, this one is folded twice to about 6″ x 7″. I’ve seen one other … Continue reading
Malahat Drive was and remains a scenic route north from Victoria up the east side of Vancouver Island. This painting is by William Thurston Topham (1888-1966), who was born in England but moved to Canada when he was 23. While … Continue reading
While the work of W.J. Phillips, who painted the cover of yesterday’s menu, is well known (or at least well documented) today, today’s artist, Gordon Gillespie, is not. One web site speculates that he may have been a staff artist … Continue reading
The Canadian Pacific menus today and in the next three days were all issued in 1937 and all have paintings whose artists are identified on the covers. Of them, W.J. (for Walter Joseph) Phillips (1884-1963) was probably the most famous. … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover before on a 1955 Mountaineer dinner menu. We’ve seen the inside of this menu before in yesterday’s patriotic menu, which is an identical buffet dinner menu to this one. I include it here under the theory … Continue reading
This patriotic menu observes the fact that “For the first time in our peacetime history, Canadian sailors, soldiers and airmen are on active duty overseas,” meaning in Korea. While the Korean War had ended by the time this 1954 menu … Continue reading