Pacific Empress
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subject: C.P.R. steamships
subject: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
subject: Travel
subject: Tourism
subject: Steamboats
subject: Ocean liners
is part of: Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection
creator: Canadian Pacific Steamships
issued: 2018-11-29
created: 1931-1934
description: Eight Pacific Empress newsletters, one from 1931, one from August 27, 1939, and the others from the summer of 1934 (19 Jul., 21 Jul., 23 Jul., 19 Aug., 27 Aug., 28 Aug., and 30 Aug.).
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note: assagai1 CAN AD IAN £ PACIFIC £ STEAMSHIPS Page Two PACIFIC EMPRESS BRAVE RIGOURS OF WINTER IN LONELY SHACK SEEKING "COLOUR" Lady Kitty Ritson Enriches Her Experiences by Mastering the Uses of a Can- opener, and Learning How to Bank a Fire in Zero Weather By Lady Kitty Ritson {Lady Kitty Ritson wrote the following_ notes on a brief stay at Metagama, Ontario, for the Canadian Geographical Journal and they are reprinted in the '' Pacific Empress'' by special permission. Lady Kitty is a journalist, authoress, traveller and dog-lover, and her new book just published, *' The Fiery Cross," deals with the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 in which her ancestors had a part. She belongs to one of the oldest Scotch families^ and her mother is a daughter of the fifth Earl of Arran. Her father, the eighth Earl of Airlie, was killed in action in the South African War. One of Lady Kitty's latest plans is to go to the Canadian North by dog team this winter or next.) I^OING something different from the -^—"every-day round causes me to feel as if I were a pioneer. I suppose that everyone feels that way about a sweeping change from ordinary habit. I know that I felt I was being rather daring and courageous when my friend Miss Eira Wigan and myself set out to spend a fortnight at Metagama in a shack, although, no doubt, many Canadians would regard it as a commonplace trip. However, it fulfilled all my hopes, knowing a little as I did, of the country, having stayed at the station two years ago. Poor Eira was much disappointed, for she had expected to be assailed by hordes of timber wolves and to hear moose crashing their antlers against the door, and nothing of the sort happened. But I was happy, and at the same time I assimilated plenty of knowledge which might be useful on a more extended trip. You imagine, I suppose by this last remark, that I learnt the habits of wild game and how to harness a dog team. Nothing so romantic, but I nearly sang with the sense of achievement that swept over m…
has type: Newsletters
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374502
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
current location: Box 225
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. The Chung Collection. CC-TX-225-47-3
type: Text