See this World Before the Next pays homage to the romantic era of cruising to the world's exotic destinations - in the first class style of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Though the Canadian Pacific Railway was a national enterprise in name, its founders were free-traders in practice and global thinkers by nature Before the rails from east and west were joined in Eagle's Pass at Craigellachie, BC, on 7 November 1885, the company was operating ships on the Great Lakes, building a chain of tourist hotels, and already planning to launch end-of-track clear across the Pacific, laying the foundations for what would become the largest and most comprehensive transportation system in the world What appeared to the public as separate companies popping up all over the map - Canadian Pacific Hotels, Canadian Pacific Steamships, Canadian Pacific Telegraphs, and so on - were, for operational purposes, mere departments of the worldwide administrative octopus known as the Canadian Pacific Railway: An Imperial Highway