Unlike the booklets advertising the world cruises, the 1930s West Indies cruise booklets we’ve seen didn’t have lavish paintings on their covers. However, the Mediterranean cruise booklets are more impressive. This may be because the West Indies cruises were short, … Continue reading
Most of the cruise menus presented here in the last few weeks have been for holidays ranging from Christmas to St. Patrick’s Day. The Chung collection has some ordinary menus from the 1936 and 1937 West Indies cruises aboard the … Continue reading
As I have mentioned previously, the addition of the second Empress of Britain to Canadian Pacific’s ocean liner fleet in 1931 was a momentous enough occasion that I am using that year to divide the 1920s from the 1930s. The … Continue reading
St. Patrick’s Day, which is observed by the Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Eastern Orthodox churches, was as good a reason as any for a party on a lengthy ocean cruise. In 1932, when this menu was used, the Empress of … Continue reading
In early 1938, Canadian Pacific thought that it could do a standard world cruise in 1939. But in July, increasing hostilities between Japan and the Soviet Union, as well as continuing troubles in China, led CP to revise the itinerary. … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s 1938 world cruise was also its last true round-the-world cruise. It was 128 days long, three days longer than in 1937. Hilo and Havana were still off the itinerary, as in 1937, but the stay in Los Angeles … Continue reading
For 1937, Canadian Pacific cut the length of the cruise from 130 to 125 days. It deleted stops in Hilo, Hawaii, and Havana, Cuba, and reduced the length of the stay in Los Angeles from one-and-a-half days to just one … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s 1936 world cruise was little changed from the previous couple of years. Leaving January 9 aboard the Empress of Britain, the cruise visited 31 ports in 130 days. Click image to view and download a 64.0-MB PDF of … Continue reading
The booklet advertising the 1935 world cruise featured faux luggage stickers, likely drawn by CP staff artists. The largest sticker on the back cover is for Angkor Wat, the Cambodian ruin that was an optional exclusion in both the 1934 … Continue reading
After the disastrous 1932-33 cruise, which attracted only 283 passengers, Canadian Pacific reduced all of the fares for its 1934 world cruise aboard the Empress of Britain by $150 to $250. The lowest fares dropped from $2,250 to $2,100, while … Continue reading
