Sale 2490 - Rare & Important Travel Posters, October 25, 2018

DESIGNER UNKNOWN 230 c HUNTING IN CANADA / CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY. Gouache maquette. Circa 1935. 18x11 3 / 4 inches, 45 3 / 4 x29 3 / 4 cm. Condition A. Gouache on paper. Framed. “Hunting in Canada became a growing attraction as advertisers working for Canadian Pacific encouraged sportsmen, in explicit ads, to come and shoot anything that ran or flew. Images of the game they could hunt appeared in bright colors on series of posters” (Canadian Pacific p. 226). Although designed for the Canadian National Railway, this image is quite similar to a printed brochure for the Canadian Pacific. Canadian Pacific p. 232 (var). [800/1,200] C. NORWICH (DATES UNKNOWN) 231 c CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS. 1924. 39 1 / 2 x24 inches, 100 1 / 4 x61 cm. Johnson, Ridle & Co., London. Condition A / A-: creases in margins; fold through upper right corner and image. Framed. Canadian National Railways was formed in 1918, and ultimately became a conglomeration of many smaller railway companies. In 1923, when it took over the Grand Trunk Railway, it became the largest Canadian railway company (taking control of the three coast-to-coast Atlantic-to-Pacific rail lines in Canada -The Canadian Pacific, which was the first, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the Canadian Northern Railway). [1,000/1,500] 230 231