Lunch on August 24 featured gaffelbiters (pickled herring), lobster on the half shell, and honeycomb tripe. We’ve seen this cover photo before on a Banff Springs Hotel menu.
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Lunch for August 26 used another menu cover we haven’t seen before, this one featuring a Diesel-powered train, probably the Dominion, passing through the Rocky Mountains. The back cover claims that Canadian Pacific follows a “water-level route” through the Rockies, but that is quite a stretch, as Kicking Horse Pass, at 5,338 feet, was higher than Great Northern’s Marias Pass (5,213 feet) and much higher than the Canadian National route over Yellowhead Pass (just 3,711 feet).
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Was this photo, or the one with the train emerging from the tunnel shown yesterday, ever used on a Canadian Pacific dining car menu? So far I haven’t found any, but it is possible.
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The farewell dinner on August 26 used the above menu cover, which was also used for a dinner on the trip to Liverpool. With such items as brook trout, braised sweetbreads, lamb chop, and roast turkey, the chefs didn’t seem to go all out to make this meal a special one, but all of them were pretty interesting.
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At the end of the voyage, the captain made this abstract of the ship’s log available to passengers, noting changes in the weather and arrival times in Greenock and other spots. No arrival time is shown for Montreal, probably because the abstract was printed for distribution to passengers before the actual arrival.
The captain (one S.W. Keay) of the Empress of Scotland is listed as O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire), which seems remarkable for the captain of a merchant marine vessel.
It turns out that Captain Keay (along with many other merchant mariners) is listed as a recipient of a Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea (per Wikipedia; where is O.B.E. is also mentioned) in his case for conduct as Chief Officer on the _Duchess of York_ in 1943.
It further turns out that the _Duchess of York_ was a CPR ocean liner that was commissioned into service by the Royal Navy during WWII. It was attacked in a convoy by German aircraft during
(My comment got cut off) …It was attacked off the coast of Spain by German aircraft, while sailing in a troop convoy (Convoy Faith). Most were saved, but 27 souls were lost and the Duchess of York (along with the SS California) were sunk the next day.
So whatever the particulars of Captain Keay’s conduct during that battle, his service merited an OBE and a Lloyd’s medal. After that, sailing routine transatlantic trips in the postwar years must have been a pleasant way to spend the latter years of his career.