Princess Kathleen Menu

This 1950 menu showing the Princess Kathleen sailing from Vancouver to Victoria was used in the Empress Hotel. It’s a little larger than CP dining car menus from 1950, so this picture may not have appeared on a dining car menu. The menu is a little more varied than a dining car menu, of course, with nine table d’hôte entrées (plus two “light” salad entrées) and several more on the a la carte side.

Click image to download a 1.3-MB PDF of this menu.

Rare for a post-war menu, the cover illustration on this one is a painting rather than a photograph. The back explains that the painting was by “noted Vancouver Island water colorist” Owen Goward (1905-1983). Goward studied art at the Royal Academy in London and specialized in Canadian landscapes. Another painter named Owen Goward is still active and living in, I believe, California; it is possible that the two are related.

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