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The person on the cover of this menu is supposed to be Champlain (1567-1635), who founded and governed the early colony of Quebec and New France in what is now Canada. In fact, he never sat for a portrait so … Continue reading
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This menu is a tribute to Alexander MacKenzie, who in 1793 became the first European to cross the Rocky Mountains and reach the Pacific Coast. The building in the background is a “crofters cottage,” meaning the home of a tenant … Continue reading
Issued at least as early as 1956, a series of Canadian Pacific Empress dinner menus featured paintings of historic people with a historic architectural structure that was somehow associated with that person. Today’s menu shows the Pont du Gard, which … Continue reading
“Nef” is an unusual enough word that it isn’t in my spell-checker’s dictionary. Yet the on-line Merriam-Webster defines it as “an ornamental table utensil (as for holding a napkin, knife, and spoon) shaped like a ship.” The back of this … Continue reading
Breakfast and lunch menus on Canadian Pacific’s trans-Atlantic steamships in 1957 were not as fancy as the dinner menus, and the lunch menu is one we have previously seen aboard Canadian Pacific dining cars. The breakfast menu is printed on … Continue reading
Today’s menu features an English landscape painter named John Constable (1776-1837). The cover also shows Willy Lott’s Cottage, a house that was featured in several of Constable’s paintings and that survives today, partly because it was popularized by Constable. One … Continue reading
In 1957, or possibly earlier, Canadian Pacific began featuring British artists on the covers of its Atlantic steamship menus. We previously seen a menu portraying Robert Burns. Today’s menu features William Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon, the birthplace of the famous actor … Continue reading
The photo on this menu cover is taken from the same spot as the photo on a Canadian Pacific booklet that I estimated was published in 1948. However, the locomotives in the photos are quite different. Where the locomotive on … Continue reading
We saw this same menu cover a few days ago when it was used for the Gala Dinner on Helen Hruska’s Empress of Scotland trip to Scotland. Here it is used for the Gala Dinner on the return trip. I’m … Continue reading
We’ve seen a painting of this ship before on a 1937 menu, at which time it was called the Empress of Japan, having been built in 1930 to serve Canadian Pacific between Vancouver and Yokohama and other Pacific ports. With … Continue reading