To fill their eyes with the biggest ship that ever came to Canada. biggest plying between Empire ports. biggest built in Britain since the War. Canadians came by excursion trains to Quebec last week, roared through a new 1 ½ mile-long Canadian Pacific Railway tunnel under the city, came out at a spandy new pier and suddenly beheld the towering white, three-funnelled Empress of Britain.
To say that a ship was decorated by artists of the British Royal Academy is to stamp her with a definite cachet. From George V and Queen Mary down. British aristocracy gathers every spring...
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