The Anachronism

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It’s 1955, and Canadian Pacific has replaced its heavyweight, steam-powered transcontinental passenger trains with the streamlined Canadian and Dominion led by the newest Diesel locomotives. Yet passengers on the Empress of France wouldn’t know it, being given this menu showing the steam-powered Mountaineer on the cover. The back cover proudly states that the train is air conditioned, which by 1955 was considered a given.

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The back also says that the cover was “printed in England 1951,” so the Empress staff must have had some extra menu stock left over from four years before. Somehow I don’t think that Ian Warren, the railway’s passenger manager at the time, would have approved. Continue reading →

Empress of France Menus

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We’ve seen both of these menu covers before, but they came with the menu I am showing tomorrow, which we haven’t seen. These two menus were used for dinner on the Empress of France on August 13 and 14, 1955.

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First is the Royal York Hotel on a menu advertised as the “Gala Night.” The menu includes emince of beef, which I understand to mean leftover scraps, not what I’d expect in a first-class dining room. But it also has Brome Lake duckling, Brome Lake being a lake (and village) in Quebec. A third entrée is lamb. Continue reading →

Last Menus Before Montreal

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Lunch on August 24 featured gaffelbiters (pickled herring), lobster on the half shell, and honeycomb tripe. We’ve seen this cover photo before on a Banff Springs Hotel menu.

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Lunch for August 26 used another menu cover we haven’t seen before, this one featuring a Diesel-powered train, probably the Dominion, passing through the Rocky Mountains. The back cover claims that Canadian Pacific follows a “water-level route” through the Rockies, but that is quite a stretch, as Kicking Horse Pass, at 5,338 feet, was higher than Great Northern’s Marias Pass (5,213 feet) and much higher than the Canadian National route over Yellowhead Pass (just 3,711 feet). Continue reading →

Steaming Through Kicking Horse Canyon

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No doubt because staterooms were small, many passengers on the Empress of Scotland checked larger pieces of luggage into a baggage room. For a few hours a day, the room was open so that passengers could get a change of clothes or other items. Here is a baggage tag used on the steamship.

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The dinner menu on August 22 had this photo of a steam-powered passenger train emerging from a tunnel in the Kicking Horse River canyon. We’ve previously seen a menu with a photo taken somewhat upstream from this spot, but not this particular photo. It is a little surprising that CP would still use photos showing steam locomotives, as railroads usually featured their most recent technologies. Continue reading →

Return to Montreal on the Empress of Scotland

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To return to Canada, Ms. Hruska left Liverpool on August 20, 1954. She kept this programme, one of which was printed for every day of the voyage, for August 20. It reveals that the trip from Liverpool to Montreal wasn’t non-stop: the ship docked in Greenock, Scotland, giving passengers a last chance to post or collect mail or telegrams.

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In some ways, the dinner menu on the first night out from Liverpool resembles the menu from the first night out from Montreal. Both have smoked salmon as an appetizer, turbot as one of the fish courses, frogs legs for an intermediate course, lamb as one of the main courses, and mocha cake for one of the desserts dessert. But the turbot, frogs legs, and lamb are prepared differently and many of the other items are different as well. Chicken chipolata (sausage) was probably also a welcome change. Continue reading →

Yoho Valley Empress Menu

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Here’s a menu cover we haven’t seen before showing Yoho River Valley, with Takakkaw Falls in the distance. However, I am chagrinned to discover that a similar menu, also used on the Empress of Scotland but in 1957, is in the Chung collection. Somehow I missed it when searching through all of that collection’s 800-plus menus.

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This is a lunch menu and so it’s a little smaller than dining car menus. However, it’s entirely possible that this photo could have been used on a dining car menu. This one is dated July 3, 1954. Continue reading →

More Empress of Scotland Dinner Menus

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On her second night out, Ms. Hruska dined from this menu. Menus like this were often used on CP’s Atlantic steamships, but not in its dining cars. The menu shows Edinburgh’s Holyrood Palace. The menu doesn’t say so, but this was and is the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland, and Queen Elizabeth spends at least one week a year in the palace.

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The menu is similar to yesterday’s dinner menu, with a suggested seven-course meal listed on the left and all of the options to choose from on the right. Some of those options include pear fritters, fried egg plant, terrine of duckling, and framboises (raspberries). Continue reading →

A Trip on the Empress of Scotland

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On June 29, 1954, Helen Hruska boarded the Empress of Scotland on Montreal for a seven-day voyage to Liverpool. She returned on the same ship, leaving Liverpool on August 20. I don’t know whether she had done this before, but she must have been excited about the trip as she kept many of the menus as well as other souvenirs. Although we’ve seen many of the menu covers before, there are at least four new ones, three of which were probably also used on dining cars.

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Christened the Empress of Japan when launched in 1930, the name was obviously changed during the war years. Originally a four-class ship, it was rebuilt after the war for 458 first-class passengers and 205 tourist-class. The above picture, which is blank on the back, was among the souvenirs kept by Ms. Hruska. She must have been in first class as she was in stateroom B-1. Continue reading →

Eastern Canada in 1953

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We’ve previously seen a 1951 version of Canadian Pacific’s booklet about eastern Canada and a 1953 booklet about western Canada. This is the eastern Canada version of the 1953 booklet.

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Banff and Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies

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Made to look something like a scrapbook with photos at odd angles, this 1951 booklet is filled with color photos of Canadian Pacific’s Rocky Mountain resorts. Photos on pages 3, 4, 8, 11, and 14 will be recognized from Canadian Pacific menus. For some reason, there are no photos on the back cover, which is mostly blank, a missed opportunity.

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