Cabin_boy

The CPR is as Canadian as tuques, maple syrup and pulling a jersey over someone's head while punching them in the face. A massive company with operations and operating offices all over the world. They have since divested of most of the non rail related business (Fairmount Hotels, CP Ships, EnCana) and pretty much sold them all off now.

 

A company with a very interesting history. The CPR made Canada what it is today.

But was it bigger than Tim Hortons??

It was interesting to see how CP grew its chain hotels, cruise lines and rail service. Making it the easiest way from getting from Western Europe to the far East. CP was something we could all be proud of.

CPR was British-owned at the time. EMPRESS OF CANADA was British-registered (to a British subsidiary of CPR, which was a British-owned Canadian company), British-crewed, British-built, and so on.

 

She is more British than TITANIC - which was owned by a British subsidiary of an American-owned American company. For that matter she is more British than QM2 is as well.

Thank you for making me do research into this ship. CPR was not a Britished owned company it was a privately held Canadian company. I had a lot of fun reading about the history of this ship. The Empress of Canada was built in Scotland but it was for CP.

I was 2 when CP Ships was sold to Carnival. To this day I always wondered why the Carnival logo looked like the old CP Rail logo. Now I know.