This menu advertising Canadian Pacific cruises was used at the Banff Springs Hotel on September 7, 1930, less than three months before the world cruise would depart New York City. The back of the menu also mentioned the 73-day Mediterranean … Continue reading
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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
We’ve already seen a couple of the menus used on the 1926-27 world cruise, including the Valentine’s Day menu and Washington’s Birthday menu. Here are a few more. Click image to view and download a PDF of this menu from … Continue reading
Here are four menus used the 1924 Empress of Canada world cruise that Wallace Chung happened to collect. The cruise left New York City on January 30 and arrived in Gibralter on February 10. In anticipation, the dinner menu card … Continue reading
Passenger taking Canadian Pacific around-the-world cruises got to celebrate three holidays in the space of 11 days in February: Lincoln’s birthday, Valentine’s day, and Washington’s birthday. Here are two Washignton’s birthday menus, the first used aboard the Empress of Scotland‘s … Continue reading
Only one of these menu cards is dated, but they are of a similar style and were probably issued around the same time. The first was used on the Empress of Russia in December 1919. Though it doesn’t say so, … Continue reading
Here are two menus that I include together only because they both feature Japanese masks. Although both are cards instead of folders, they have few other similarities, as they were used sixteen years apart on two very different ships. Click … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s first empresses were much smaller than its later ships and also, because they were slower, spent more time between ports. So I would have guessed that the menus they offered were much less elaborate than those found on … Continue reading
Since ocean voyages are supposed to be romantic, Valentine’s Day was a natural holiday celebration during the winter cruises of Canadian Pacific steamships. Here are three dinner menus used on different Empress ships. Click image to view and download a … Continue reading
Why would a Canadian company celebrate a U.S. president on one of its steamship menus? One answer is that a lot of its customers may have come from Boston, New York, and other U.S. cities that admired Lincoln (and not … Continue reading