James Wolfe died leading the British at the Battle of Quebec in the French and Indian War. Despite the loss of their leader, the British won the battle, leading France to cede Quebec to Britain. Wolfe had been born and … Continue reading
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We’ve previously seen empress menus featuring William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and John Constable. To this artist series we can add today’s menu honoring Oliver Goldsmith, an eighteenth-century Irish writer whose play, She Stoops to Conquer, is still often performed today. … Continue reading
This menu’s cover photo with a young woman precariously perched next to the river had also been used on a 1949 menu from the Chateau Lake Louise and a 1957 menu used on the Empress of Britain. This one differs … Continue reading
As marked on the cover, this menu was used at the Banff Springs Hotel. It is a little larger than CP dining car menus of that period: about 8″x11″ vs. 6-3/4″x9-3/4″. However, the same photograph was used on a 1950 … Continue reading
This is an example of what I call the Bodoni series of menus because the title of the photograph is printed in all-capital Bodoni letters on the front. The Bodoni series closely resembles the Script series, such as this one … Continue reading
This dining car menu celebrates Canadian fish & game, or the hunters of same. The front cover, shown below, shows someone catching what looks like a smallmouth bass. The back cover shows two hunters, one aiming at a rocky mountain … Continue reading
This menu pictures the interior of one of the comfortable lounges in the new Jasper Park Lodge. Above the fireplace is a piece of Northwest Indian artwork that was also pictured on the lodge’s beverage menu . Click image to … Continue reading
As previously noted, CN’s log-built Jasper Park Lodge burned to the ground in 1952, forcing the railroad to hastily erect a new lodge made of fireproof stone, concrete, and steel. While not as rustic as the old one, it was … Continue reading
The 14th tee of Jasper’s golf course appears to be located on a small peninsula in Lac Beauvert. If this were a modern golf course, the designer might have sadistically used the peninsula for the green, causing many golfers to … Continue reading
This dinner menu has a different view of Minaki Lodge from yesterday’s lunch menu. The water in the background is supposed to be the Winnipeg River, but the river is really more of a series of lakes beginning with Lake … Continue reading