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We’ve seen this menu cover before but I’m presenting it again because this one is from the same voyage of the Empress of Canada as yesterday’s menu. This one is dated August 17, which would have been the fourth night … Continue reading
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In about 1961 Canadian Pacific began using a series of menus featuring historic transportation technologies. Today’s menu shows an artist’s conception of a flying machine designed by Leonardo daVinci in about 1486. Click image to download a 500-KB PDF of … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen Canadian Pacific Empress menus from 1957 celebrating British artists such as Shakespeare, John Constable, and Robert Burns. Here are another menu in the same series that was collected by Vancouver Canadian Pacific fan Wallace Chung. Click image … Continue reading
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
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
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
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