Canadian Pacific Cruises

Canadian Pacific steamships had regular summer schedules between Canada and Europe or Australia, but they also went on various cruises in the winter, when ocean travel in northern hemisphere was less pleasant. These 1928 through 1932 menus from the Chung Collection advertised some of these cruises. The menus were used on dining cars or, in one case, in a Canadian Pacific hotel.

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This menu advertises winter cruises in 1928-1929 including the four-month world cruise, a 104-day cruise to South America and Africa, 64-day cruises to the Mediterranean, and shorter cruises to the West Indies.

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This 1930 menu was used in Victoria’s Empress Hotel. It advertised the same cruises for 1930-1931, specifying that the round-the-world cruise was 137 days and cost $2,000 and up (US$26,000 in today’s money); 73-day Mediterranean cruises were $900 and up (US$11,700 today); and 29-day West Indies cruises were $300 and up (US$3,900 today).
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This 1931 menu advertises the Empress of Japan, which cruised from Vancouver to Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia. In small print the menu also notes that 1931 was the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

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Finally, this 1932 menu advertises the Empress of Britain, then CP’s newest and largest ship, which connected Quebec with Southampton, England. I believe this was the largest ship CP ever owned, as the ship of the same name that CP owned after World War II was considerably smaller.


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