Photographed from the counter at which travellers are served, the main office houses passenger, management, freight and accounting departments. The latter three of which are shown above.

New Antwerp office.

After an occupancy of nearly 30 years of the offices situated at 25 Quay Jordaens, Antwerp, along the River Scheldt front, practically opposite the steamship loading berth, the Company offices have been moved to a more appropriate site, commensurate with present day requirements of passenger travel.

Quay Jordaens offered little opportunely for booking passenger traffic and at the expiry of the lease, offices were rented at Meir 42, the main artery of Antwerp. The passenger department occupies the main frontage with a spacious show window, which is already showing reafasfactory results, while the management, freight and accounts departments, occupy the back portion of the premises, with all departments located on the ground floor. The show window, which was originally designed for display purposes, is spacious and framed in black and vermilion in the modern manner. Interior of the office is well lighted, and the good natural and artificial lighting scheme is enhanced by light toned decorations throughout. A gold combed plaster dado to a height of seven feet is embellished with inset motifs illustrative of Canada's industries, farming, lumbering, fishing, and mining. Frieze and ceilings are of cream textured plaster. Screen and counter with fittings are of oak.

The Antwerp organization, where passenger, freight and forwarding, steamships, and express business is transacted, is in charge of S.S. Snellgrove general agent, H.V. Gard passenger agent, F.M. Peeraerts chief assistant to general agent, A. Vermeyen chief clerk freight and forwarding, and R. Van Raemdonck accountant. The total staff numbers nearly forty.

Canadian Pacific Railway Coast Steamship Princess Elaine launched 1927 at Clydebank, Scotland - Date? Photographer?

"Rasputin", wily eyes agleam, and whiskers bristling belligerently, refuses to be discouraged from his disconcerting habit of hooking free rides on the Company's Vancouver- Nanaimo turbiner, "Princess Elaine".

"Rasputin", as he is sometimes called by reason of his deep cunning and considerable daring, is a nondescript wire-haired terrier whose father must have been a seagoing lad for the sea is in Rasputin's blood with a vengeance.

He waits until no one is looking, then sneaks aboard the gangplank of the "Princess Elaine" at Vancouver, rides 32 miles across the Gulf to Nanaimo, and somehow, manages to make the return trip. He hides away until the ship is safely past the First Narrows, then emerges, a sly grin on his face and a red tongue lolling between his whiskers, and actually struts around the decks.

He refuses to leave the dock at Nanaimo, and runs back to board the Elaine by gangplank, or over the baggage deck when the coast is clear. Efforts of Capt. Nils J. Sterner, Purser Harold McDonald, and other ship's officers to discourage the stowaway so far have been unavailing and Rasputin seems to have adopted the crew for all time.

 
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