After spending the last several weeks scrutinizing Canadian Pacific’s ocean cruises, I plan to spend the next several weeks looking at Canadian Pacific menus, including a few dining car menus but mostly menus used aboard ships in ocean liner (as opposed to cruise) service. Some of these menus will be from my own collection, but most will be from the Chung collection.
Click image to view and download a 822-KB PDF of this menu from the Chung collection.
I’m starting with a couple of menu cards used aboard different CP ships. These cards typically had a small colorful drawing at the top showing some sight or destination reachable by CP trains or ships. The menus were cards rather than folders because they were for something less than first-class passengers. The above lunch card from 1928 was used aboard the Duchess of Atholl, which was a cabin-class (second-class) ship, meaning it didn’t have a first class.
Click image to view and download a 597-KB PDF of this menu from the Chung collection.
The second menu card today was used aboard the Princess Alice in service between Vancouver and Skagway. The card is undated but is a similar style to the previous card, both having a colored stripe around the edge and a picture of a Canadian Pacific hotel at the top.
Passengers crowd the decks as the Princess Alice leaves Vancouver. Photo courtesy of the Alaska State Library, Captain Lloyd “Kinky” Bayers Manuscript Collection.
The Princess Alice had 103 two-berth staterooms that might be considered equal to the cabin class aboard the Duchess of Atholl as well as room for up to 1,200 other day passengers with no sleeping accommodations for those passengers. Since this menu is unpriced, it is probably for passengers who booked staterooms and not for the day passengers.
This passenger list is courtesy of the Alaska State Library, Steamship Company Publications Manuscript Collection.
The Alaska State Library has a 1928 passenger list for the Princess Alice‘s sister ship, the Princess Adelaide. I count 258 people on the list, so either many people went for only part of the trip and their rooms were used by others for other parts of the trip or the list includes day passengers.