In the 1960s, many Empress menu covers featured historic forms of transportation, including ships, primitive aircraft, a penny-farthing bicycle, and two early steam locomotives. Today’s menu presents an ornate horse-drawn carriage from 1786. The menu calls this a chariot and says “it bore the arms of the Prince of Wales.”

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The 1967 menu was used aboard the Empress of Canada, Canadian Pacific’s last ocean liner, during one of its winter cruises to the West Indies. Since the Caribbean was presumably warm and humid even in February, the menu offered a cold buffet for lunch. The menu included several appetizers, three salads, roast turkey, several red meats, and several desserts including vanilla and coffee ice cream.

At 4-1/2″x6-1/4″, the menu is obviously a different size from the dinner menus in the historic transportation series, which were 8-1/4″x10-1/2″ for dinner menus and 6-3/4″x9-3/4″ for lunch menus. The smaller size is probably unique to West Indies and other winter cruises.