History of the flag

The other day I missed the February 15 anniversary of the 1965 adoption of the maple leaf flag.

I'm actually not one of those horrified to see all those Maple Leaf flags being waved about by the FluTrux convoys around the country. Better the maple leaf than those other ones. They may be wrong about everything, but in seeking shelter under the Maple Leaf they seem to acknowledge the power of national institutions, even as they reject everyone's authority but their own. We're gonna need some of those national institutions.  

History of Flag and Family Day

In Ontario, it's "Family Day" and a holiday.  But this year Family Day falls on Flag Day, 15 February, though that's not a holiday, anywhere to my knowledge.  Celebrate as you will.

Republic Now marks Flag Day by complaining that other flags take precedence when British members of the royal family come on holiday here.  Quite a few of them, apparently.

Meantime, over the last four years, the government tasked the Canadian Heraldic Authority at Rideau Hall with creating “Canadianized” flags for British royals – Charles, William, Andrew, Edward, Anne–five in all…hardly Canadian, since they mostly use British templates. And, you guessed it, they eclipse the Maple Leaf, too.

Surely it is not Edward Day?

Image: Republic Now.

Flag Day is a thing in Canada?

(illustration courtesy of Mount Allison University)

Who knew? Not me, but more power to the late, great, historian George Stanley (1907-2002). He even has a facebook page. Now that's glory for you.