South America-Africa was the last cruise added to Canadian Pacific’s offerings, first taking place in 1928. Although the cruise visited some famous sites, including the pyramids and Mount Vesuvius, these were also visited by the world and Mediterranean cruises. Otherwise, … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s Mediterranean cruises included excursions to many of the same locations as the first part of its world cruises, including Madeira, Gibralter, Algiers, Cairo, Jerusalem, Naples, and Monaco, but the Med cruises also went to Seville, Constantinople, Athens, and … Continue reading
Round the world cruises weren’t the only cruises offered by Canadian Pacific. Trans-Atlantic ocean liner traffic greatly declined in winter, so CP used its ships on cruises to the West Indies (more frequently called the Caribbean today), the Mediterranean, and … Continue reading
This would be the last world cruise taken by the Empress of Australia. Canadian Pacific’s magnificent new Empress of Britain had been launched in June, 1930, and would make its maiden voyage from Southhampton to Quebec just a few weeks … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s 1929-30 world on the Empress of Australia was 137 days, one day longer than the previous year’s, which had been the longest up to that year. The cruise left New York on December 2 and returned on April … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s 1928-29 world cruise was the longest to date, and it is especially long as described in this booklet, which was aimed at residents of Great Britain. For them, the cruise would be a trip around the world plus … Continue reading
For 1927-28, Canadian Pacific elected to use the Empress of Australia for its world cruise. This may be because the Empress of Scotland was getting old; it was eight years older than the Australia and would be scrapped in 1931, … Continue reading
It may be a sign of the success of Canadian Pacific world cruises that the company hired Maurice Logan to paint the cover of the 1926-27 advertising booklet rather than a then-unknown artist such as Holling Holling or Richard Allen … Continue reading
For the winter of 1925-26, Canadian Pacific decided to begin its round-the-world tour in early December rather than mid-January. It may have been reluctant to do this in 1924 and 1925 because it feared some potential passengers would not want … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific elected to use the 11-year-old Empress of France for its 1925 world cruise. Launched in 1913 as the Alsatian by the Allan Line (which Canadian Pacific had controlled since 1909 but operated separately from its own ships until … Continue reading
