Canadian Pacific cruises : round the world and Mediterranean, 1925-1926
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subject: C.P.R. steamships
subject: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
subject: Travel
subject: Tourism
subject: Steamboats
subject: Voyages around the world
subject: Ocean travel
subject: Ocean liners
is part of: Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection
creator: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
issued: 2018-11-22
created: 1925
description: Booklet advertising Canadian Pacific cruises on the Empress of France and Empress of Scotland, with paintings of people and destinations.
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note: .^-■aar , f- VUf I** inadian r« EMPHESS of SCOTLAN THE stately, spacious flagship of the Canadian Pacific fleet, the EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND, has been chosen for the Round the World Cruise, leaving New York on December 3rd, 1925. Her great size (25,000 tons gross register and 37,500 tons displacement), her airy rooms, her three ample promenade decks one of which is partly enclosed, her Empire dining saloon with a capacity of 436 people at one sitting, her inlaid satin wood ballroom, immense oak smoking room, winter garden, palm garden, cardrooms, lounges, and gymnasium give to this giant cruise ship all the attractions of an exclusive club. She has the variety of comfort and cuisine so essential to a four months' trip. Passenger elevators connect the eight decks of the vessel and the oil-burning engines mean that there is freedom from dirt, dust and soot, and the annoyance caused by coaling or shifting coal at ports. The itinerary includes twenty-five ports in twenty separate countries with fifty-four and a half days on shore. The Riviera will be visited at the season's height. Christmas will be spent in the Holy Land, New Year's Eve in Cairo, India at the most pleasant season of the year, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java and the Philippines under congenial weather conditions, and China and Japan in cool clear weather. The Panama Canal will be made before the torrid heat of summer commences. Page Two EMPRESS of FRANCE SWIFT, graceful, seaworthy and delightful in every respect is the vessel selected for the Mediterranean Cruise leaving New York on February qth, 1926. Selected for voyages by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, the EMPRESS OF FRANCE has spacious public rooms of unusual distinction. The lounge-ballroom follows a scheme designed by Sir Christopher Wren, from the Royal Apartments at Hampton Court Palace, with carved woodwork by noted craftsmen in the style of Grinling Gibbons. The Jacobean smoking room reproduces fireplace and furniture from celebrated baronial halls, and the b…
has type: Advertisements
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374316
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Canada : Canadian Pacific Railway Company
current location: Box 237
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/
source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. The Chung Collection. CC-TX-237-8
type: Text