Hunt Big Game in Canada (1930) by Thomas Tom Herbert Hall – Iconic Canadian Pacific Moose Hunting Travel Poster Wall Art

Hunt Big Game in Canada – Historic Canadian Pacific Railway Poster by Tom Hall

Explore the rugged visual language of early Canadian wilderness tourism with Hunt Big Game in Canada, a dramatic circa 1930 Canadian Pacific Railway travel poster by Thomas Herbert “Tom” Hall.

A massive bull moose strides through shallow water at the center of the composition. Its enormous antlers spread outward against a brilliant golden-yellow sky, while its dark brown body and cool blue-gray legs create a powerful silhouette. Ripples and reflected shapes beneath its hooves suggest steady forward motion through a marsh, lake edge, or northern wetland.

Behind the animal, stylized evergreen forests rise in layers of orange, pale green, and blue. A flock of birds crosses the distant sky, adding movement and emphasizing the openness of the Canadian wilderness. Hall simplifies the landscape into broad areas of saturated color, producing an image that feels immediate, bold, and highly visible from a distance.

The lower panel announces “Hunt Big Game in Canada” and invites travelers to “Ask the Canadian Pacific for Full Particulars.” Although no train appears in the artwork, the advertisement positions the Canadian Pacific Railway as the gateway to remote landscapes and outdoor expeditions.

The energetic brushwork, limited palette, flattened forms, and commanding typography reflect the influence of Art Deco and modern commercial illustration. Today, the poster is most appropriately valued as a record of railway promotion, changing attitudes toward wildlife, and the historical marketing of Canada as a vast sporting frontier.

This museum-grade reproduction is well suited to cabins, lodges, studies, libraries, offices, rustic interiors, wildlife collections, transportation displays, and educational presentations exploring the history of tourism and conservation.

Why Collectors Value This Print

• Created by Canadian commercial artist Thomas “Tom” Herbert Hall
• Reproduces a Canadian Pacific travel poster from circa 1930
• Features a monumental bull moose in a northern wetland
• Includes the historic slogan “Hunt Big Game in Canada”
• Identifies Canadian Pacific as the gateway to wilderness travel
• Uses enormous antlers as the composition’s dominant silhouette
• Depicts water ripples, reflections, forests, and migrating birds
• Employs a brilliant golden-yellow background
• Combines brown, orange, blue, and green with graphic intensity
• Demonstrates the influence of Art Deco commercial design
• Documents the marketing of hunting tourism during the interwar era
• Provides context for changing attitudes toward wildlife conservation
• Appeals to collectors of Canadian railway and wildlife posters
• Complements cabins, lodges, studies, and rustic interiors
• Preserves a historically significant image of Canadian tourism

Available Print & Display Options

• Fine Art Prints
• Framed Fine Art Prints
• Gallery-Wrapped Canvas
• Black Floater Frame Canvas
• White Floater Frame Canvas
• Brown Floater Frame Canvas
• Natural Floater Frame Canvas
• Metal Prints

Choose a traditional fine-art print, ready-to-display framed artwork, dimensional canvas, or sleek metal print. Each format emphasizes the moose’s monumental antlers, brilliant yellow field, colorful forest, reflective water, and period Canadian Pacific typography.

Artwork Details

• Title: Hunt Big Game in Canada
• Artist: Thomas Herbert “Tom” Hall
• Date: Circa 1930
• Country of origin: Canada
• Historic advertiser: Canadian Pacific Railway
• Visible call to action: “Ask the Canadian Pacific for Full Particulars”
• Purpose: Railway travel and hunting-tourism promotion
• Primary subject: A bull moose wading through shallow water
• Secondary imagery: Evergreen forest, birds, marsh grasses, ripples, and reflections
• Style: Canadian Art Deco-era railway and wilderness advertising
• Composition: Monumental animal profile above a black typographic panel
• Primary colors: Golden yellow, dark brown, orange, blue, green, black, and white
• Mood: Rugged, powerful, remote, and historically evocative
• Recommended spaces: Cabin, lodge, study, library, office, rustic living room, or museum-style display
• Collector appeal: Canadian Pacific history, wildlife imagery, railway tourism, and outdoor advertising

Disclaimer

This artwork is a Museum Grade Reproduction of a Historical advertising poster.

It is offered as a decorative and educational reproduction and is not an original circa 1930 railway poster. Minor variations in color, visible texture, proportions, or cropping may occur among the available sizes and display formats.

This historical poster promotes big-game hunting, reflecting the recreational and tourism practices of its period. Its reproduction is not an endorsement of poaching, animal cruelty, irresponsible hunting, or harm to wildlife. Yesterday’s Posters supports lawful wildlife protection, responsible conservation, and respect for animals and their habitats.

Yesterday’s Posters is an independent seller and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian Pacific Kansas City, Thomas Herbert Hall, or any associated companies, estates, or rights holders.