I’ve previously noted that ocean liner operations alleviated boredom by using any possible excuse for a party, and when there were no excuses, they had a party anyway. Each trans-Atlantic crossing on Canadian Pacific steamships had at least one gala … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific timetables included schedules of its steamships as well as its trains. The company’s newest ship, the third Empress of Britain, is featured in a Chesley Bonestell painting on the inside front cover. Trans-Atlantic ocean liner schedules on page … Continue reading
The last menu presented yesterday was from an Empress of Australia voyage that left Liverpool on June 30 and arrived in Montreal on July 8. Today we have four more lunch menus from that same trip, presented in the order … Continue reading
At around the same time that Canadian Pacific introduced its palace menus, it also began using menus featuring inns and pubs. While the palace menus had color illustrations on the covers and were used for dinners, the inn menus had … Continue reading
From about 1953 through at least 1961, Canadian Pacific issued several series of menus for its first-class empress passengers. One of the first, if not the first, was one featuring color illustrations of British royal palaces, usually with a servant … Continue reading
Here are three menus used in Canadian Pacific hotels in the early 1940s. First up is a 1940 dinner menu from the Royal Alexandra in Winnipeg. The menu offers table d’hôte dinners for $1, $1.25, and $1.50 — multiply by … Continue reading
This tri-fold menu features the welcome totem pole at Kingcombe Inlet — which is now apparently spelled Kingcome Inlet — a fjord between Vancouver and Prince Rupert. This totem was at the entrance to a village which once held potlatch … Continue reading
In 1930, Canadian Pacific bought a 900-acre island that was just a few hundred feet off the shore of Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island. Newcastle Island had previously been a source of coal, but the coal mine was exhausted, so CP … Continue reading
This menu is undated but is part of a series of menus featuring black-and-white photographs on the cover. Most of these were issued in the early- to mid-1930s, probably as a cost-cutting measure due to the Depression. The lamb chops … Continue reading
These two beverage menus were used in the bars of Canadian Pacific’s steamships. The first is dated August 1934 and someone has helpfully written that it was from the Empress of Britain. The second is dated July, 1936 and was … Continue reading
