CP Hotel menus
Have you ever ordered food from hotel room service and were shocked when your clubhouse and coffee came to $30? Well, it looks like steep room service prices aren’t a recent phenomenon. Take this 1962 menu from the historic CP Empress Hotel in Victoria. Billed as a typical winter menu for the hotel dining room, […]
Traveling in Style
Perhaps we’ve just been overexposed to Canadian Pacific’s historic promotional material, but enjoying a fine meal while glorious views of Stoney Creek and the Selkirks rush by to the clickity-clack of the railroad ties sure sounds enticing. This section of mountainous track and bridges between Field and Revelstoke was an engineering marvel of its day, […]
Common Stock
This Canadian Pacific Railway Company stock certificate from 1915 not only represents what was probably a lucrative investment for Mr. Archibald White Maconochie, but is a something of a work of art in its own right. We’re particularly fond of the inset locomotive engraving. Part of UBC Rare Books and Special Collections’ Chung Collection and to […]