Canadian Pacific
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One sheet This vintage travel poster, titled "Travel Canadian Pacific Across Canada!",
was designed by Canadian artist Peter Ewart around 1947.
It was part of a major advertising campaign by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to promote tourism and transcontinental rail travel during the "golden age" of railways.
Key Poster Details
Locomotive: The featured train is number 5924, a "Selkirk" type steam locomotive. Specifically, it belongs to the T1b class, built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1938.
Design Style: The artwork uses a dynamic composition and a bold, stylized color palette to evoke the "romantic allure" and power of long-distance travel through the Canadian Rockies.
Artist: Peter Ewart (1918–2001) was one of CPR's most prolific artistic contributors, designing over 24 posters for the company starting in 1940.
Historical Context: The Selkirk Locomotives
The Selkirks were the largest and most powerful non-articulated steam locomotives in the British Empire. Named after the Selkirk mountain range they traversed, they were primarily used to haul heavy passenger and freight trains between Calgary and Revelstoke. Because of their immense weight, they could not travel all the way to the west coast terminal in Vancouver.
One sheet This vintage travel poster, titled "Travel Canadian Pacific Across Canada!",
was designed by Canadian artist Peter Ewart around 1947.
It was part of a major advertising campaign by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to promote tourism and transcontinental rail travel during the "golden age" of railways.
Key Poster Details
Locomotive: The featured train is number 5924, a "Selkirk" type steam locomotive. Specifically, it belongs to the T1b class, built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1938.
Design Style: The artwork uses a dynamic composition and a bold, stylized color palette to evoke the "romantic allure" and power of long-distance travel through the Canadian Rockies.
Artist: Peter Ewart (1918–2001) was one of CPR's most prolific artistic contributors, designing over 24 posters for the company starting in 1940.
Historical Context: The Selkirk Locomotives
The Selkirks were the largest and most powerful non-articulated steam locomotives in the British Empire. Named after the Selkirk mountain range they traversed, they were primarily used to haul heavy passenger and freight trains between Calgary and Revelstoke. Because of their immense weight, they could not travel all the way to the west coast terminal in Vancouver.
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