Whoever collected yesterday’s lunch menu must also have kept this menu from their return trip aboard the Empress of Scotland, which left almost six weeks after they arrived in England on the Empress of France. The Scot departed Southampton on August 30 and was scheduled to arrive in Quebec City on September 6, so this menu, dated September 2, was used mid-voyage.

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Like yesterday’s menu, this one is for third-class passengers and as such it is adequate but not particularly memorable. The menu offers no hors d’œuvres but it does have a choice of two soups, four entrées, a buffet, salads, a couple of desserts, and coffee or tea. One of the entrées, Gnocchi Romaine, which is something like pasta alfredo only baked. The other entrées are similarly low-cost items: steak, kidney, and mushroom pie; roast mutton; and pork cutlet.

Photo by James Wheeler.

The menu is decorated with a colorful image of Moraine Lake in Banff National Park. Canadian Pacific built a tea house at the lake in 1912, which eventually grew into Moraine Lake Lodge, which is on the right side of the above photo. CPR sold the lodge in 1959 and it still operates today.