This menu is undated but the hairstyles in the photo on the back cover place in the mid-1960s. The front cover is a travesty of design: three different graphic styles and eight different typefaces both indicating that whoever put it … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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. Click image to download a 924-KB PDF of this menu. Lunch for … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover before on a 1939 menu except that the hotel in the picture was different. The 1939 menu showed the new Hotel Vancouver, which had been jointly built by Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, while this cover … Continue reading