For 1927-28, Canadian Pacific elected to use the Empress of Australia for its world cruise. This may be because the Empress of Scotland was getting old; it was eight years older than the Australia and would be scrapped in 1931, … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a couple of the menus used on the 1926-27 world cruise, including the Valentine’s Day menu and Washington’s Birthday menu. Here are a few more. Click image to view and download a PDF of this menu from … Continue reading
It may be a sign of the success of Canadian Pacific world cruises that the company hired Maurice Logan to paint the cover of the 1926-27 advertising booklet rather than a then-unknown artist such as Holling Holling or Richard Allen … Continue reading
For the winter of 1925-26, Canadian Pacific decided to begin its round-the-world tour in early December rather than mid-January. It may have been reluctant to do this in 1924 and 1925 because it feared some potential passengers would not want … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific elected to use the 11-year-old Empress of France for its 1925 world cruise. Launched in 1913 as the Alsatian by the Allan Line (which Canadian Pacific had controlled since 1909 but operated separately from its own ships until … Continue reading
Here are four menus used the 1924 Empress of Canada world cruise that Wallace Chung happened to collect. The cruise left New York City on January 30 and arrived in Gibralter on February 10. In anticipation, the dinner menu card … Continue reading
Passenger taking Canadian Pacific around-the-world cruises got to celebrate three holidays in the space of 11 days in February: Lincoln’s birthday, Valentine’s day, and Washington’s birthday. Here are two Washignton’s birthday menus, the first used aboard the Empress of Scotland‘s … Continue reading
Demand for travel to Europe declined in the winter, and apparently that was especially true for the first-class travel provided by Canadian Pacific empresses. CP continued to serve wintertime Canada-England travelers with its cabin-class ships, while in 1924 it began … Continue reading
This brochure describes around-the-world tours people could take using Canadian Pacific trains across Canada, Canadian Pacific ships from Vancouver to Hong Kong or Australia, and Canadian Pacific ships from Liverpool to Montreal. The brochure lists other carriers that could complete … Continue reading
Only one of these menu cards is dated, but they are of a similar style and were probably issued around the same time. The first was used on the Empress of Russia in December 1919. Though it doesn’t say so, … Continue reading
