The Empress of France was scheduled to leave Montreal at 11 am, and this menu offered lunch just an hour later. We’ve seen the photo on this menu cover at least twice before, both on 1954 Empress of Scotland lunch menus.

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Today’s menu offered three juices, nine hors d’oeuvres, three soups, two fish, eight entrées, two grills, nine items on a cold buffet, six salads, and four desserts plus several ice creams. I am particularly tantalized by a Bangalore fruit curry with patna rice and Boston cream buns.

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We’ve seen this photo on an Empress of Scotland 1954 lunch menu. I have fond memories of Yoho National Park so I particularly enjoy this menu, but so far I have only found it used on Empress steamships. This one is dated April 28.

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We’ve previously seen this photo of Mount Eisenhower on dining car, hotel, and steamship menus. In fact, I have six other menus with this photo plus a seventh menu with a photo of the mountain from a slightly different angle. It may have been the most commonly used photo on Canadian Pacific menus.

Oddly, this April 28 menu doesn’t specify whether it was for lunch or dinner, nor does it have any suggested meals on the right side, which was left blank. However, these empress lunch menus were 6″x9″ while the dinner menus were 6-3/4″x9-3/4″ (which was the same size as dining car menus of this era). Since this menu is the larger size, it must have been a dinner menu.