Empress of Japan Figurehead

This is a fibreglass replica of the figurehead of the Empress of Japan.

"The Empress of Japan, is “one of the trio of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's first generation of 'White Empresses,' those ships that were the company's final links in its drive to create an extension of its trans-Canada railway system right through to the Orient and Australasia . . . This ship was once Vancouver's one and major link with the Orient—a ship so lovely in appearance that school children used to be taken down to see her pass in and out of the harbor on her regular schedule, a schedule that was maintained from 1891 to 1922.” by Leonard G. McCann, curator emeritus at the Vancouver Maritime Museum

boat's figureheadStanley ParkNorth ShoreLions Gate BridgeBurrard InletVancouver Harbour