Here are two menus that I include together only because they both feature Japanese masks. Although both are cards instead of folders, they have few other similarities, as they were used sixteen years apart on two very different ships. Click … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s first empresses were much smaller than its later ships and also, because they were slower, spent more time between ports. So I would have guessed that the menus they offered were much less elaborate than those found on … Continue reading
Yesterday, I mentioned that Canadian Pacific owned twenty ocean liners that carried the name “empress.” But is also owned a confusing number of other ocean liners, including the duchess series, the mont series, the -n series (ships whose names ended … Continue reading
After the Great War, Canadian Pacific Ocean Services’ first priority was to add to its empress fleet in Atlantic service. First, it renamed the Alsatian, a ship of its recently acquired Allan Line, the Empress of France. The largest of … Continue reading
Since ocean voyages are supposed to be romantic, Valentine’s Day was a natural holiday celebration during the winter cruises of Canadian Pacific steamships. Here are three dinner menus used on different Empress ships. Click image to view and download a … Continue reading
When Donald Smith drove Canadian Pacific’s last spike in 1885, the city of Vancouver did not yet exist and Port Moody, the railroad’s original terminus, housed only about 250 people. All of British Columbia held about 50,000 residents, half of … Continue reading
Why would a Canadian company celebrate a U.S. president on one of its steamship menus? One answer is that a lot of its customers may have come from Boston, New York, and other U.S. cities that admired Lincoln (and not … Continue reading
I’m interrupting this week’s series of posts on Florida trains to remind you that today is the 264th birthday of Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet. On this day, Scots traditionally have a Burns supper, a meal that is centered on … Continue reading
I’m interrupting the tale of Chicago-Pacific Northwest railroads to wish you a Happy New Year and present this menu from a 1931-1932 Canadian Pacific world cruise. The menu was used on the practically brand-new Empress of Britain, which between 1931 … Continue reading
Happy holidays to Streamliner Memory readers. Here are some Canadian Pacific Christmas menus from the University of British Columbia’s Chung collection. Although these menus are over an eight-year period and one is aboard a steamship and the other two are … Continue reading
