Canada for big game! Travel Canadian Pacific / Ewart. – Antique Print
![Canada for big game! Travel Canadian Pacific / Ewart., [S.l. : s.n., ca. 1950] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cf/cfb7ec9694e6-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Canada for big game! Travel Canadian Pacific / Ewart., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Canada for big game! Travel Canadian Pacific / Ewart.
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Among the travel posters in this gallery, this one stands out for its direct appeal to sportsmen: "Canada for Big Game!" promotes hunting trips rather than scenery or resorts. The Canadian Pacific Railway, which carried passengers across the country and ran its own hotels and lodges, commissioned posters like this to sell rail travel as the gateway to remote wilderness. The subject matter reflects the postwar years, when American travelers were eager for outdoor adventure and the railway promoted its network into northern forests. Moose, the animal named in the subject headings, was a prized trophy, and the poster reflects that era's view of hunting as a central part of the Canadian outdoors experience.
| Created / published | [S.l. : s.n., ca. 1950] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 91 x 61 cm. |
| Genre | Travel posters Canadian 1940-1960.Lithographs Color 1940-1960. |
| Notes | No. 907. Title from item. |
| Subjects | Canadian Pacific Railway Company--1940-1960. Travel--Canada--1940-1960. Big game hunting--Canada--1940-1960. Moose--1940-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,986 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224970 |
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