CANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIPS LTD.

The deep-sea funnel was used from 1946 to 1968. Liverpool Shipping depicts its panel as a band, but an Empress of Canada photograph contradicts that rendering.

This was the commodore’s flag.

Government permission to separate shipping from railway activity was granted on 16 March 1915. Canadian Pacific Ocean Services was formed on 1 October to manage the North Atlantic fleet, including Allan interests from January 1916, and was incorporated in London on 16 July 1916. Merchant Ships instead describes it as a renaming of CPS. It became Canadian Pacific Steamships on 8 September 1921, based at Liverpool. Fleet names included Beavers, Duchesses, Empresses and Monts.

U.K., London and Liverpool; Montreal is also recorded.

The document combines the Canadian railway parent, UK steamship entity and Bermuda shipping subsidiaries. A single Canada label cannot resolve all those legal identities. The entire subsidiary succession and original 1873/1881 dates are not independently settled.