Canadian Pacific 1934 Hula Menu

We’ve previously seen a circa 1929 menu with a painting of a hula dancer on the cover. This cover is less colorful but, I am sure, no less fascinating to the members of the Massachusetts-Rhode Island Knights Templar traveling to the Pacific Northwest through the Canadian Rockies. The lunch menu is dated July 17, 1934, the same as yesterday’s breakfast menu.

Click image to download a 2.1-MB PDF of this menu.

While yesterday’s menu advertised a Canadian Pacific hotel (which members of the tour were probably going to stay at), this one was designed to advertise trips on CP’s ocean liners, the Empress of Japan and Empress of Canada, which stopped on Honolulu on their way to Japan, the Philippines, and China. CP’s White Empress liners, the back of the menu says, featured “luxurious appointments, unobtrusive perfection of service by European and Oriental stewards, [and] Royal Naval Reserve officers.”


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