| Dr. Crippen's arrest(A12894)
In 1910, wireless telegraphy was used for the first time to arrest a fleeing criminal at sea. This snapshot of suspected murderer Dr. Crippen and his female accomplice LeNeve, disguised as a boy, on board the Montrose was taken by Captain Kendall from his cabin porthole the day before their arrest.
Date: 1910
Artist/Photographer: H.G. Kendall
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives, H.G. Kendall collection
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| Empress of Britain(A10035)
CP's 42,000-ton steamship Empress of Britain enters one of the Panama Canal locks while on a world cruise.
Date: c.1935
Artist/Photographer: Associated Screen News
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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| Empress of Australia(A16943)
CP's Empress of Australia and Empress of Canada share a wharf at the Kowloon docks at Hong Kong.
Date: C.1927
Artist/Photographer: Associated Screen News
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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| Princess Victoria(NS21256)
The Princess Victoria, a vessel in CPR's British Columbia Coast Steamship Service.
Date: 1930
Artist/Photographer: C.R. Littlebury
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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| Empress (NS2695)
The steamer Empress was purchased by CP in 1916 for the company's Bay of Fundy service between Digby, NS, and Saint John, NB.
Date: c.1920
Artist/Photographer:
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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| Kootenay(NS1648)
The CP sternwheeler Kootenay at Nakusp on the Upper Arrow Lake.
Date: c.1910
Artist/Photographer:
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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| Sicamous(NS12126)
Providing accommodation for up to 500 passengers, the BC Lake & River Service sternwheeler Sicamous was launched in 1914 from the CP shipyard at Okanagan Landing.
Date: 1914-1930
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Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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| Empress of Britain(NS22046)
Flagship of the CP fleet during the 1930s, the Empress of Britain was the largest passenger steamship to serve the North Atlantic route between Canada and Europe.
Date: 1931
Artist/Photographer: Stewart Bale, Liverpool
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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| Parthia(NS25804)
The Parthia was one of three steamships chartered by Canadian Pacific in 1887 to complete the link between the company's transcontinental railway system and the Orient.
Date: 1887
Artist/Photographer: Notman & Sons
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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| Okanagan(NS2018)
The Okanagan, a sternwheeler with a capacity for 400 passengers, was built in 1907 and retired in 1934 at Okanagan Landing.
Date: unknown
Artist/Photographer:
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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| Empress of Japan(NS25974)
Canadian Pacific Pier B-C at Vancouver was completed in 1927. Moored alongside in this view are the second Empress of Japan and the Canadian Australasian Line steamer Aorangi.
Date: c.1935
Artist/Photographer: Frank Leonard, Vancouver
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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| Athabaska(A23631)
The steamship Athabaska, pictured at Port Arthur, ON, and her two sister ships, the Algoma and Alberta, inaugurated CP's Great Lakes service in 1884.
Date: 1885-1890
Artist/Photographer: J.F. Cooke
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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| Abyssinia(A15188)
The Duke and Duchess of Connaught arrive at the CP wharf in Vancouver aboard the steamer Abyssinia while on a visit to Canada.
Date: Spring 1890
Artist/Photographer: Bailey Brothers
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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| Empress of Britain(A10152)
A scene in the first-class "Mayfair Lounge" on CP trans-Atlantic steamship Empress of Britain.
Date: 1931
Artist/Photographer:
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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| Empress of Russia(NS13944)
The CP trans-Pacific steamship Empress of Russia passes Brockton Point at Vancouver, bound for the Orient.
Date: 1925
Artist/Photographer: Leonard Frank, Vancouver
Source: Canadian Pacific Archives
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