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
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
Here are two menus that I include together only because they both feature Japanese masks. Although both are cards instead of folders, they have few other similarities, as they were used sixteen years apart on two very different ships. Click … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s first empresses were much smaller than its later ships and also, because they were slower, spent more time between ports. So I would have guessed that the menus they offered were much less elaborate than those found on … Continue reading
Yesterday, I mentioned that Canadian Pacific owned twenty ocean liners that carried the name “empress.” But is also owned a confusing number of other ocean liners, including the duchess series, the mont series, the -n series (ships whose names ended … Continue reading
After the Great War, Canadian Pacific Ocean Services’ first priority was to add to its empress fleet in Atlantic service. First, it renamed the Alsatian, a ship of its recently acquired Allan Line, the Empress of France. The largest of … Continue reading
