Here are two more breakfast menus from the same voyage of the Empress of England whose menus have appeared in the last few days. Unfortunately, I don’t have lunch or dinner menus for these days. Click image to download a … Continue reading
Today’s Empress of England menus are all dated Friday, September 9, 1961. As with yesterday’s menus, we’ve seen the breakfast and lunch menu covers before but the dinner is new. Click image to download a 260-KB PDF of this menu. … Continue reading
Today’s Empress of England menus are all dated Friday, September 8, 1961. We’ve seen the breakfast and lunch menu covers before but the dinner is new. Click image to download a 266-KB PDF of this menu. A close comparison of … Continue reading
In Spring 1819, the S.S. Savannah, which had been built in her namesake city in Georgia, became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. This was less impressive than it sounds, however, as the ship relied mainly on sails and … Continue reading
The person on the cover of this menu is supposed to be Champlain (1567-1635), who founded and governed the early colony of Quebec and New France in what is now Canada. In fact, he never sat for a portrait so … Continue reading
This menu is a tribute to Alexander MacKenzie, who in 1793 became the first European to cross the Rocky Mountains and reach the Pacific Coast. The building in the background is a “crofters cottage,” meaning the home of a tenant … Continue reading
Issued at least as early as 1956, a series of Canadian Pacific Empress dinner menus featured paintings of historic people with a historic architectural structure that was somehow associated with that person. Today’s menu shows the Pont du Gard, which … Continue reading
“Nef” is an unusual enough word that it isn’t in my spell-checker’s dictionary. Yet the on-line Merriam-Webster defines it as “an ornamental table utensil (as for holding a napkin, knife, and spoon) shaped like a ship.” The back of this … Continue reading
Breakfast and lunch menus on Canadian Pacific’s trans-Atlantic steamships in 1957 were not as fancy as the dinner menus, and the lunch menu is one we have previously seen aboard Canadian Pacific dining cars. The breakfast menu is printed on … Continue reading
Today’s menu features an English landscape painter named John Constable (1776-1837). The cover also shows Willy Lott’s Cottage, a house that was featured in several of Constable’s paintings and that survives today, partly because it was popularized by Constable. One … Continue reading
