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Canadian Pacific Railway, circa 1950. A Canadian Pacific engine underway with mountains in the background. Illustrated by Peter Ewart. Vintage Travel Poster

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Leonetto Cappiello

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Thomas Hall

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Thomas (Tom) Hall

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Norman Fraser

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N. Cramer Roberts

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Jacques Ceria Despierre

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A. Lambourg

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Trans-Canada Limited - Fastest Train Across The Continent - Canadian Pacific - c. 1924

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Tony Castle

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Tolga, Southern Algeria (Le Sud Algérien Tolga) - Algerian Railways - c. 1938

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Daniel Buzzi

Our Lady of Lourdes - Saint Bernadette - French National Railroads - c. 1962

Spa, Belgium - Belgian National Railways - c. 1946

Pol-François Mathieu

Normandy in Summer - Sea Baths & Excursions - French State Railways - c. 1922

Géo Dorival

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Charles-Jean Hallo

French Rivera (Côte d’Azur), France - Paris - Lyon - Mediterranean (PLM) - c. 1921

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William P. Welsh

Speed to Winter Playgrounds - Pullman Company - c. 1935

Nice - Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM) French Railway - c. 1890

F. Hugo D’Alési

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Winter Sports (Sports d’Hiver) - Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée Railway - Ski

Georges Arou

Santa Fe, New Mexico - Native American Indian Boy - Santa Fe Railroad - c. 1950's

Vintage Railroad Travel Poster

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Othon Friesz

The Seaside Calls: Go by Train - Take a “Kodak” - Victorian Railways - Australia - c. 1938

Gert Sellheim

By Train for Seaside Holidays - Take a “Kodak” - Victorian Railways - Australia - c. 1936

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Alps (Alpes) - Moths and Butterflies - SNCF (French National Railway Company)

Salvador Dali

New York Central System - Heart of Industrial America - c. 1943

Leslie Ragan

The Basque Coast - SNCF (French National Railway Company) - c. 1950's

Hervé Baille

Atlantic City - Playground of the World - Travel By Train - c. 1932

Normandy (Normandie) - French Railways (Französische Eisenbahnen) - c. 1969

Châteaux of the Loire Valley - SNCF (French National Railway Company) - c. 1953

French Flanders - SNCF (French National Railway Company) - c. 1953

Arlhen Tager

Bretagne (Brittany) - SNCF (French National Railway Company) - c. 1957

René Genis

Paris, France - Notre Dame - SNCF (French National Railway Company) - c. 1963

Bernard Buffet

Pennsylvania Service - Night Train - Pennsylvania Railroad - c. 1940's

Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France - Winter Sports - Paris-Lyon-Mediterrannee (PLM) - c. 1924

Roger Soubie

Railway Dining Car Bars (Compagnie des Wagons-Bars) - c. 1896

Eugène Vavasseur

Riviera Levante - The Italian Riviera - Rete Mediterranea Railway (R.M.) - c. 1890's

Palermo to Monreale, Sicily, Southern Italy - by Funicular Electric Tram - c. 1900

Switzerland - Bodensee-Toggenburgbahn Railway - c. 1910

Stresa to Mottarone - Lake Maggiore, Italy - by Ferrovia Electric Tram - c. 1920

Chamonix to Montenvers, France - Mer de Glace Glacier - (PLM) French Railroad - c. 1920

Nice to Coni, France - (PLM) French Railroad - c. 1929

Adolphe Cossard

Mount Vesuvius Volcano and the Gulf of Naples, Italy - c. 1925

Mario Borgoni

Los Angeles to San Francisco - Southern Pacific’s New Coast Daylight Railway Train - c. 1937

Sam Hyde Harris

Sud Express Railway - Mar Del Plata - Argentina - c. 1934

Berne, Switzerland (Suisse) - Loetschberg-Simplon Railway - c. 1931

Eugen Henziross

South for Winter Sunshine - Southern Railway Trains - c. 1929

Edmond Vaughan

Night Train to Scotland - LMS-LNER London & North Eastern Railway - c. 1932

Phillip Zec

Alezandria to Cairo - Egyptian State Railways - Queen Nefertiti - c. 1938

Travel by Train - Canadian Pacific Railway Lines - c. 1940

Hudson River Railway - New York Central System - c. 1940

Chicago - New York Central System - The New 20th Century LTD - c. 1940's

La Salle Street Station, Chicago - New York Central System - c. 1945

Switzerland (Schweiz) - Montreux Oberland Bernois MOB - c. 1950

Pierre-Alexandre Junod

Dolgoch Station on the Talyllyn Railway - Tywyn (Towyn), Wales, UK - c. 1960

Terence Cuneo

Mohawk Valley - Where the Mountains Part to Let America Pass - New York Central System - c. 1950

New York Central System - Hudson River - Diesel powered train

Parsifal - Trans Europe Express - Railways Trains - c. 1962

Vintage Railroad Poster

Roussillon France - SNCF French Railways - c. 1969

Orient Express - Paris Vienna Budapest - c. 1891

To the Golden Horn by the Simplon Orient Express - c. 1920

London to Baghdad by Simplon Orient Express - Ctesiphon Arch - c. 1931

Côte D’Azur France - Pullman Express - PLM French Railways - c. 1929

Pierre Fix-Masseau

Les Diablerets Switzerland - Ski Resort - Aigle-Sépey-Diablerets Swiss Railway - c. 1948

Martin Peikert

Swiss Alpes and Jura Mountains - Winter Ski Sports - Paris-Lyon-Mediterrannee (PLM) - c. 1932

Éric de Coulon

Jungfrau Railway Switzerland - Bernese Alps - Dog Sled Huskies - c. 1925

Emil Cardinaux

Switzerland (Suisse) - Women Skier - Montreux-Oberland Bernois (MOB) Railway - c. 1956

Switzerland (Svizzera) - Skier on Train - Montreux-Oberland Bernois (MOB) Railway - c. 1946

New Haven R.R. (The Consolidated) - New England Steam Train - c. 1940

A Public Service at the Service of the Public - S.N.C.F. - c. 1947

West Point - United States Military Academy - New York Central Lines

Frank Hazell

Visit India - Howrah Bridge Calcutta Indian State Railways - c. 1930

William Spencer Bagdatopoulos

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• Aug 26, 2021

Canadian Pacific Railway Posters: The Making of Canada’s Landscape Image

By Marc H. Choko

Magazine Issue: Spring/Summer 2021

It all started in 1886. In an article, “Our Railway to the Pacific,” published in the English newspaper Good Words , the Marquess of Lorne, husband of Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria, vaunted the marvelous scenery offered all along their trip through Canada aboard the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). The same year, The Illustrated London News offered their readers a series of photographs taken by the famous Montreal studio William Notman and Son on the same route.

From the end of the nineteenth century to the 1960s, these publications were part of vast campaigns initiated by William Van Horne and subsequent presidents of the CPR - who strongly believed in publicity strategies - to promote the image of Canada and of the company. They directed the distribution of millions of brochures, pamphlets, timetables, menus, advertisements, and thousands of posters illustrated with stunning Canadian landscapes to attract the attention of the European and North American leisure travellers.

At first, the CPR targeted Victorian elites and wealthy Americans. The company used the splendors of the Rocky Mountains, the lakes, and their luxurious “châteaux-style” hotels as key attractions. Slogans like “Why go to Switzerland?” and “Twenty Switzerlands in one,” and even “Fifty Switzerlands in one” extolled the beauties of the scenery. Ads of the 1920s and 1930s featured the exceptionally-situated Banff Springs Hotel and the famous Château Lake Louise. To distinguish these destinations, ads generously described them as “America’s St. Moritz,” a reference to St. Moritz, Switzerland, the era’s most fashionable mountain destination, and the upscale society gathered at the Banff Springs hotel as “The mountain Champs-Élysées of North America.”

The company soon added athletic activities as further inducements to visiting the Canadian wilderness. Hiking, horseback riding, and climbing were some of the recreations their posters promoted. When the middle class started to travel for pleasure, the CPR opened a series of cheaper resorts and bungalow camps that included sporting pursuits, such as canoeing, sailing, fishing, and hunting.

Canada became a famous destination for winter sports in particular. In 1925, a CPR ad trumpeted, “Quebec: The winter sport capital of the winter sport land.” In the 1920s, curling, skating, “Norwegian snowshoeing,” skiing (cross-country skiing), ski-joring (being pulled on skis by dogs or a horse) and ski jumping, were very popular for those who could afford it. In the 1930s, with the introduction of tow ropes, ski lifts, and lightweight flexible skis, downhill skiing began to take-off as a fashionable recreation in North America.

The challenge then became to sell Canada all year round. Canada Pacific Railways established grand hotels on the east and west coasts offering proximity to the ocean. In Victoria, lush gardens and a golf course enhanced The Empress hotel. A 1931 advertising campaign sold the Victoria resort as “Canada’s evergreen playground.” An ad even claimed that visitors could “Golf every day of the year.” At the other end of the country, the Algonquin Hotel at St. Andrews by-the-Sea, New Brunswick, and the Digby Pines Hotel in Digby, Nova Scotia, offered a golf course and spa with fantastic views of the ocean. Other poster campaigns advertised cruises on the Great Lakes which the company offered during the 1920s and 1930s.

To create eye-catching posters inspired by these landscapes, the CPR, which had its headquarters in London, England commissioned designs by well-known British artists, such as Alfred C. Leighton, Leonard Richmond, Kenneth Shoesmith, and Tom Purvis. This strategy helped bring their ads to the attention of graphic art magazines that multiplied between the two World Wars.

The company also issued dozens of tourism posters by Canadian artists. Ski posters signed by Thomas Hall, John Vickery, Norman Fraser, and some unsigned, can be found. Those designed by Peter Ewart are the most striking; their Modern graphic style conveys the thrill of speed and freedom of the open slopes.

Hunting and fishing in Canada became a growing attraction. Poster designers working for Canadian Pacific explicitly encouraged sportsmen to come and shoot anything that ran or flew. Tom Hall’s grizzly poster for the famous Big Game campaign of 1938–39 won the top award out of 250 entries at the first Transit Advertisers annual exhibition held at New York City’s Rockefeller Center.

Early Canadian Pacific posters are lithographic prints, but the primary technique became serigraphy after the company opened its own silkscreen printing studio at Windsor Station in 1932. Much of the silkscreen printing had to be done by hand, which was not a problem during the Depression as labor cost was low and, rather than laying off employees, the company put some to work printing posters. The silkscreen technique does not require extensive training, special expertise, or sophisticated, expensive equipment. Compared to lithography, serigraphy is an uncomplicated and economical process. In addition, texts, parts of the illustrations, and prices could be easily modified at any stage of the printing process at no extra cost. The designers commissioned to create the poster designs were mainly local freelance artists supplementing their other commercial or artistic activities. Artists such as Thomas Hall, James Crockart, and, above all, Norman Fraser were the most prolific designers of Canadian Pacific in the 1930s. Although their styles are individual, the silkscreen stencils encouraged the use of flat colors and simple shapes that resulted in a recognizable aesthetic.

Foreigners and Canadians came to identify these posters’ images of stunningly beautiful landscapes - the untamed forests, vast mountains, and expansive lakes - with not only the Canadian Pacific Railways, as the company's name persistently appeared on all publicity pieces, but also with Canada itself. Thus for some decades, CPR advertising shaped how people saw Canada, both at home and around the world.

Note: this text is largely based on Marc H. Choko, Canadian Pacific. Creating a Brand, Building a Nation , Callisto Publishers, 2015

Marc H. Choko is professor emeritus at the School of Design of Universite de Quebec a Montreal and an author, lecturer, and exhibition curator in the field of posters and graphic design.

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Original Vintage Railway Poster Travel Canadian Pacific Across Canada Train Art

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• Creator : Peter Ewart (Artist)
• Dimensions : Height: 35.83 in (91 cm) Width: 24.41 in (62 cm) Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
• Style : Art Deco (Of the Period)
• Materials and Techniques : Paper
• Place of Origin : Canada
• Period : 1940-1949
• Date of Manufacture : 1940s
• Condition : Good Additions or alterations made to the original: Several restored paper losses on left edge, restored tears, backed on linen. Good condition, several restored paper losses on left edge, restored tears, backed on linen.
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