This wine list and cocktail menu is decorated with two different images of Northwest Indian art. I’m not a Native American and I think the problem with cultural appropriation tends to be overblown, but I still cringe a little bit … Continue reading
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Canadian National must have used dozens of different pictures on its Jasper Lodge menus over the years. This menu is from 1964 and shows an aerial view of the lodge, a photo that would have been difficult to take in … Continue reading
The back cover of this menu says that the attractive flowers on the front are Indian paintbrush and dog tooth violet. However, according to Wikipedia, dogtooth violet only grows in eastern North America. The yellow flowers in the painting are … Continue reading
In the late 1920s, Canadian Pacific owned and operated a dozen major hotels and lodges, all of which are pictured on the back of this menu. We’ve previously seen menus like this for six of those hotels; this brings it … Continue reading
Here are two more menus from the transportation history series that we haven’t seen before. The first shows an 18th-century man-of-war ship. It was used on the Empress of Canada in August, 1965. Click image to view and download a … Continue reading
The tracks that the Puffing Billy operated on passed in front of George Stephenson’s boyhood home, which still exists as a national historic site. I bicycled by this house once and took a tour before enjoying hot chocolate and scones. … Continue reading
This menu clearly has the same theme of historic transportation devices as the ones shown in the past several days, but it is a breakfast card instead of a dinner folder. The penny-farthing or high-wheeler bicycle was briefly popular before … Continue reading
According to Wikipedia, “Puffing Billy is the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive,” having been built in 1813. The back of this menu notes that, “In the early days of railways, . . . a rate of twenty miles an hour … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu cover before but I’m presenting it again because this one is from the same voyage of the Empress of Canada as yesterday’s menu. This one is dated August 17, which would have been the fourth night … Continue reading
In about 1961 Canadian Pacific began using a series of menus featuring historic transportation technologies. Today’s menu shows an artist’s conception of a flying machine designed by Leonardo daVinci in about 1486. Click image to download a 500-KB PDF of … Continue reading