These menus are dated June 20 and June 22, 1954, which puts them midway through the Empress of Scotland‘s seven-day voyage from Liverpool to Montreal. The Empress was launched in 1930 as the Empress of Japan, but of course the name was changed in World War II. In 1954, the ship only had three years before Canadian Pacific sold it to the Hamburg Atlantic line, which renamed it the Hanseatic.
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At first glance, these menus look similar to dining car menus, but they are a little smaller: 6″ by 9″ instead of 6-3/4″ by 9-3/4″. The above menu cover features one of Canadian Pacific’s hotels that we haven’t previously seen on a menu before, so I was hoping to find evidence that this hotel had been pictured on a dining-car menu cover.
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The photograph on the second menu was also used on a Banff Springs Hotel menu that I presented here about a year ago. Like many CP hotel menus, that one is 8″ by 11″, bigger than most dining car menus. Still, it is possible that either or both of these cover photos might have appeared on a dining car menu.
Of the various hotels owned by Canadian Pacific in the 1950s, ones that I haven’t so far found on a menu cover include the Pines (Digby, NS), Cornwallis (Kentville, NS), and McAdam (McAdam NB). An even bigger omission is the Place Vigor, CP’s hotel in Montreal. Although that hotel closed in 1935, I haven’t found any menus from before that year featuring the hotel.