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Postcard depicting the steamship Empress of Japan, built in 1891 to provide fast service between Vancouver and Hong Kong, with a 30-day duration in winter. Bilingual text in English and French. Front: handwritten address to Englehart, Ontario, and Canada 36 stamp canceled in North Bay 18 XII 47. Back: description of the voyage and the shipwreck in 1926.