Canadian Pacific timetables shrank from 36 to 28 pages in 1968 and remained that size at least through 1970. But today’s 1972 timetable was reduced to a mere 12 pages. Click image to download a 7.8-MB PDF of this 12-page … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen an April 1961 Canadian Pacific timetable that featured a painting of the Canadian stopped at Banff. Today’s timetable shows a Nicholas Morant photo of the same train crossing Stoney Creek Bridge on its way to Banff and, … Continue reading
We’ve seen this photograph before on a 1954 dinner menu that had “Canadian Pacific dining car service” in the lower right corner. Today’s 1960 menu says “Ski High. . .” on the cover in Bodoni typeface and was used on … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific may have used menus featuring cover images of the Empress of France only on that ship and the Empress of Scotland only on that ship. But otherwise menus found on one would likely be found on the other. … Continue reading
The person who collected all of the Empress menus we’ve seen in the past few days also kept two of the daily programmes issued to passengers to help them relieve the boredom of being on a boat surrounded by ocean … Continue reading
Today we have the last menu used on the April 27-May 3 voyage of the Empress of France and the first menu used on the May 24-May 31 voyage of the Empress of Scotland. Steamship arrival times were probably a … Continue reading
Here’s an April 30 menu featuring Katy’s Cove, a private beach for guests at the Algonquin, Canadian Pacific’s hotel in St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick. We’ve previously seen a menu with this cover that was used on the Empress of Scotland. … Continue reading
Today’s Yoho Valley lunch menu was used on April 29, 1957, the fourth day of the Empress of France‘s voyage from Montreal to Liverpool. The menu has the usual amazing range of foods. Click image to download a 768-KB PDF … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
