Pamphlet advertising travel on the Empress ships. Cover image shows an Empress and seagulls.

Pamphlet promoting trans-Atlantic travel on the Canadian Pacific Empress steamships.

Deck plans of the second Empress of Scotland, including a 1950 tissue deck plan and two pamphlet-form plans of the ship's accommodations, dating from 1950 and 1952.

Oversize pamphlets promoting cruises to the West Indies on the Empress of Scotland. Titles are: West Indies-South America cruises : 1955 (2 copies), and Canadian Pacific West Indies Cruises : Empress of Scotland plan (2 copies).

Oversize pamphlets promoting cruises to the West Indies on the Empress of Scotland. Titles are: Canadian Pacific West Indies Cruises : Empress of Scotland Plan, Empress of Scotland, West Indies Cruises by Empress of Scotland.

Tissue deck plans for the Empresses of Asia and Russia dated Nov. 1931, May 1933, May 1936, Apr. 1937, and Mar. 1939.

Tissue deck plans for the Empress of Japan, dated Oct. 1931, May 1934, May 1926 and Apr. 1937

Deck plans for the second Empress of France, including a 1946 deck plan for the Empress of France and the second Empress of Canada, as well as two copies of a 1953 colour coded Plan of Accommodation of the Empress of France, in pamphlet format, featuring photographs of the ship's interior, and three copies of a May 1958 deck plan of the ship.

Deck plans related to the first Empress of France and Mediterranean cruises made by the ship, including a 1923 deck plan, a deck plan for the ship's 1927 Mediterranean cruise, and a 1931 colour coded deck plan with interior views on the verso.

Deck plans for the Empress of England, including a 1960 plan of the ship's accommodations, and deck plans for 1966 and 1968.

File contains textual material related to the first Empress of Canada including an invitation for a social gathering on board, two boarding passes, one for Yip Kee Hum and one for L. Crawford, a baggage label and other textual material.

Tissue deck plans for the first Empress of Canada, dated May 1934 (2 copies), Apr. 1937, and Feb. 1939.

Deck plan of the Empress of Canada. 7 copies.

Cruise deck plans for the third Empress of Canada, including one also bearing deck plans for the Empress of England.

Tissue deck plans for the Empress of Canada, dated Jul. 1960 (2 copies), 1966 (2 copies), 1968, 1969 (2 copies), and 1971 (3 copies).

Tissue deck plans for the Empress of Canada, dated 1924, Oct. 1931 and Jun. 1932.

Pamphlets promoting cruises on the Empress of Canada. Titles include: West Indies-South America Cruises by Canadian Pacific : Empress of Canada, Empress of England, Caribbean Cruises : Empress of Canada, Go Empress Across the Atlantic with Canadian Pacific, Go Empress to Europe, and Empress of Canada Caribbean Cruises from New York 1970/71. One pamphlet includes deck plans.

Deck plans for the Empress of Canada and the Empress of France, including two copies of a 15 Nov. 1946 preliminary plan of the ships, when the Empress of France was intended to be called the Empress of India, and three undated colour coded plans with interior views on the back.

Programme and menu for the post-maiden voyage banquet.

Postcard sent in 1940 to Captain B .B. White and two letter cards, one blank, the other sent in 1939 to Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Dupuis.

One business card for a Canadian Pacific Steamships Traveling Passenger Agent, two from a Canadian Pacific passenger department in Boston, Massachusetts featuring drawings of the Empress of Britain, and an advertisement on card for a world cruise on the Empress of Britain departing New York on May, 15, 1934.

Deck plans of the second Empress of Britain on tissue dating from 1931, March 1937, March 1938, and April 1936, including photographs of the ship's interior on the verso.

Three deck plans of the second Empress of Britain featuring tourist and third class accommodations, including a Plan of Tourist Class Accommodation likely dating from 1931, and two plans of the ship, one likely dating from 1931, and the other from April, 1936, featuring photographs of the ship's tourist and third class passenger accommodations on the verso.

Deck plans for the Empress of Britain, from dates including 1955 and Dec. 1956, and a 1959 plan of the Empress of Britain's accommodations.

Pamphlet promoting passenger travel on the Empress of Britain. Includes many photographs.

Pamphlet promoting passenger travel on the Empress of Britain. Includes many photographs.

Booklet promoting the Empress of Britain, with many watercolour illustrations. Three copies, one copy missing back cover.

Promotional brochure about the Empress of Britain, published prior to its maiden voyage. With original envelope.

Two 1953 plans of the Empress of Australia's accommodation and a cabin class plan of the ship, with interior views, from 1948, when it was the ship De Grasse of the French Line.

Pamphlet with deck plans for the Empress of Australia. Cover image is two Chinese women.

Deck plans of the first Empress of Australia, including a Sept. 1932 deck plan with interior views on the verso and a 1936 colour coded deck plan with stateroom plans and photographs of the ship's interior.

Colour coded cruise deck plans of the first Empress of Australia, featuring photographs of the ship, for Mediterranean cruises.

Deck plans of the first Empress of Australia, including colour coded deck plans dating from Mar. 1924 and May 1927, and colour coded deck plans with interior views on the verso dating from Dec. 1930 and May and Dec. 1931.

Pamphlet advertising a Mediterranean cruise on the Empress of Australia. Cover shows two figures.

File contains steerage berthing cards for Chow Yat Hong and Woo Chow Shim, correspondence between Yip Sang and J. J. Forster concerning a refund for Shim's ticket, as well as two bills of lading from goods to be shipped from Asia to Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, aboard the Empress of Asia.

Official album of large format photographs of the Empress of Asia and Empress of Russia steamships produced by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to promote its luxury ocean liner travel, including a photograph of the Empress of Asia on a trial trip, some photographs of the Empress of Asia's interior, including photographs of its first class common rooms, private quarters, and a photograph of the ship's gymnasium, as well as several photographs of the Empress of Russia, including a photograph taken on the ship's observation bridge, a photograph of the first class promenade deck, some photographs of the ship's first class common areas, as well as a photograph of the Louis the Fifteenth Suite, and a photograph of a first class state room.

Oversize promotional pamphlets advertising cruise destinations and ship amenities on the Duchess of Richmond. Titles are: California, Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico : all in one summer cruise (2 copies) and Mediterranean Cruise 1932.

Deck plans for the Duchess of Bedford from 1931-1932. 3 plans, 2 each with an additional copy. One also has plans for the Empress of Australia.

Pamphlet advertising a West Indies cruise. Cover image shows a black man swimming beside two rowboats.

Deck plans for the Duchess of Atholl, Duchess of Bedford, Duchess of York and Duchess of Richmond, dated Dec. 1928, Apr. 1929 and Jul. 1929. Colour coded with interior views on the verso.

Promotional pamphlet about Shanghai. Two copies.

Tissue deck plans for the third Montcalm, the second Montrose, the Montclare, and the Duchess steamships Atholl, Bedford, York, and Richmond. Deck plans of the Montcalm, Montrose, and Montclare for the following years: August, 1923 and March, 1928 (with interior views), and February 1930, July 1935, and March, 1937 (colour coded with interior views). Deck plans of the Duchess steamships Atholl, Bedford, York, and Richmond are for the following years: September 1930, November and December 1931, and March 1934 (all with interior views).

Colour coded deck plan of the Duchess of Bedford, with interior views.

Pamphlet advertising Canadian Pacific steamships, with sailing dates.

Timetable and fares.

Pamphlet advertising steamship service to Asia, and a letter from Joe Ohori to Dr. W. B. Chung about his acquisition of the pamphlet.

Pamphlet advertising West Indies cruises on Canadian Pacific steamships. Cover image is a woman with a flower in her hair.

Two laundry bags with a print of a globe with routes of Canadian Pacific ocean routes marked in red ink, and a print of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's steamship fleets on the other side, printed in brown ink.

Race cards, concert programmes and a certificate issued to Florence Richardson appointing her a member of the Order of the Blue. Collected by Carrie Ingels Richardson on her and her family's world cruise.