I found two more empress menus from the early 1930s in the Chung collection, both used on the trans-Atlantic route. First is a breakfast card from the Empress of Australia in 1932. We’ve previously seen a breakfast card from a … Continue reading
These Pacific empress menus were used on the Empress of Japan in 1934 and 1935. First is one featuring an illustration of the port of Montreal. The tourist-class lunch menu lists 31 items, plus cheese, biscuits, and coffee. Click image … Continue reading
Two of today’s 1933 menus feature Canadian Pacific hotels and look to be part of a series that included one for the York Hotel shown here two days ago. All three menus are printed on nearly white paper with the … Continue reading
The Pacific empresses were a little slower, a little smaller, and had more water to cross between ports where they could restock supplies. This could have had an influence on the menus Canadian Pacific offered to passengers, but apparently it … Continue reading
Here are a number of tourist-class menus from a single trans-Atlantic trip aboard the Empress of Australia in 1931. There are fewer selections on these menus than on first-class menus, but no tourist-class passenger would go hungry on one of … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s tourist class was supposed to be a cut above third class but not quite as good as second class. Normally third class consisted of shared rooms with 8 to 12 beds. CP’s tourist-class rooms had just two to … Continue reading
In 1923, Canadian Pacific publicist John Murray Gibbon organized a fishing trip for Country Life magazine editor Reginald Townsend; Rand McNally president Harry Beach Clow; Chicago artist Reinhold Palanske; and their wives. The group was joined by Banff photographer Byron … Continue reading
After spending the last several weeks scrutinizing Canadian Pacific’s ocean cruises, I plan to spend the next several weeks looking at Canadian Pacific menus, including a few dining car menus but mostly menus used aboard ships in ocean liner (as … Continue reading
After World War II, Canadian Pacific resumed its West Indies and Mediterranean cruises from New York but not its world or South America-Africa cruises. The earliest cruises documents in the Chung collection are from 1953, but it seems likely that … Continue reading
As noted yesterday, Canadian Pacific doesn’t seem to have held a Mediterranean from New York in 1939, probably due to European troubles. Instead, the company offered a summer cruise of major North American destinations, including Cuba, Panama, Mexico, Hawaii, and … Continue reading
