Lot 122: CANADIAN PACIFIC DINING PLATE AS USED IN SERVICE

From the Canadian Pacific Line this is an original as used on board dining plate. Produced in the original design it is 8¼" (21cm) wide, bottom marked and in an excellent condition dating from the 1960’s.

[The Canadian Pacific Line was a company under the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). The Canadian Pacific Railway Company was formed in 1881, and the company soon entered into ship-owning. In the beginning limited to transportation along Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. The transatlantic passenger service however, was not started before in 1903, when CPR took over the ships and service of the Beaver Line. The division was managed as the "Canadian Pacific Ocean Services" (C.P.O.S.).]