Item HT 7959 Booklet - 'Go Canadian Pacific - See Canada', Canadian Pacific, circa 1950s-1960s

Summary

Booklet for train, "Canadian Pacific", it contains travel information about the Canadian Pacific Railway and Canada. It is part of a collection of 175 items of post-war ship memorabilia collected by John McKay. John began collecting shipping brochures as a boy through an interest in travel and later used some of the material in his professional capacity as a Geography and Social Studies teacher. He finally made a voyage himself in 1957-1958, to England to attend a scouting jamboree, although he ended up staying for 18 months. He remembers lots of Australians going over at that time, and references to Earls Court as 'Kangaroo Alley'.

Physical Description

Sixteen page booklet folded in half once, it is printed on white paper. The front cover has a yellow header with red and blue text and features an illustration of passengers on the glass top train admiring the view of snowed mountain range and green valley. It has white and black text. Pages are glossy, featuring colour, photographic illustrations and black text.