The Pacific empresses were a little slower, a little smaller, and had more water to cross between ports where they could restock supplies. This could have had an influence on the menus Canadian Pacific offered to passengers, but apparently it did not.

Click image to view and download a 971-KB PDF of this menu from the Chung collection.

This breakfast menu on the Empress of Russia lists 81 numbered items (making it easy for guests to order by number). That’s a lot more than were listed on the trans-Atlantic breakfast menus presented here yesterday. That may be because yesterday’s menus were for tourist class while today’s is unmarked but may have been for first class.

Click image to view and download a 1.0-MB PDF of this menu from the Chung collection.

This breakfast menu on the Empress of Japan has 78 numbered items along with another 10 or so items that were numbered on the Empress of Russia menu but not here. The canoe and mountains decorating this card look like they are from Alaska.

Click image to view and download a 624-KB PDF of this menu from the Chung collection.

This tourist-class lunch menu from the Empress of Japan lists 24 different items plus cheese and crackers and beverages. That’s about the same as the number of items on yesterday’s tourist-class lunch menus.

Click image to view and download a 436-KB PDF of this menu from the Chung collection.

This lunch menu has about the same number of items. It is also notable that the types of foods are also similar. While the decorations on most of these menus have Asian or Pacific themes, Canadian Pacific didn’t make any effort to sample Pacific cuisines but instead made an effort to provide Pacific travelers with the same boring foods they eat at home.

Click image to view and download a 451-KB PDF of this menu from the Chung collection.

Like the lunch menus, this dinner menu has about two dozen items plus some savory desserts and beverages. Again, this is pretty similar to yesterday’s trans-Atlantic dinner menus.