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CANADA FLAGS
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Sizes
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9"x18"
12"x24" 15"x30"
18"x36" 27"x54"
36"x 60" 36"x
72" 45"x 90" 54"x
108"
6 ft x
12ft
7 1/2 ft x 15 ft
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Materials
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- Nylon
- Heavy-Duty Nylon
- Polyester
- Knitted Polyester
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Canadian Blue Ensign 1921 - 1957
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Canadian Red Ensign 1868 -
1921
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| Canadian Red Ensign
1921 - 1957 |
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Canadian Red Ensign
1957 - 1965 |
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Ensigns are
currently available in 27"x 54" and 36"x
60" sizes |
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For nearly a century
Canada had no distinctive national Flag.
Each time Canadians suggested a new symbol to
replace the Canadian Red Ensign, modeled after a
British Naval Flag, there was controversy.
Maple leaves, beavers, crosses, crowns -
propositions that went nowhere. In 1964
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson said he'd
introduce a new national Flag. But
Opposition leader John Diefenbaker and the Royal
Canadian Legion wanted to stick with the Red
Ensign. Everyone had an opinion before
Canada finally chose the red and white Flag with
the maple leaf.
On a Friday afternoon in the late autumn of 1964,
an urgent request came from Prime Minister Lester
B. Pearson to the desk of Ken Donovan. Mr.
Donovan was then an assistant purchasing director
with the Canadian Government Exhibition
Commission, which later became a part of the
Department of Supply and Services.
The Prime Minister wanted prototypes of the
proposals for the new Flag to take to his new
residence at Harrington Lake the next morning.
The three proposals on the table included
the single maple leaf design.
The only design samples in existence were drawings
on paper. So Mr. Donovan and his team of
designers managed to do the impossible. The
Flag prototypes were assembled in just a few
hours. Graphic and silk screen artists Jean
Desrosiers and John Williams were called in to
work on the Friday evening. Since no
seamstress could be found, the Flags were stitched
together by the young Joan O'Malley, daughter of
Ken Donovan.
For the first time in the country's 98-year
history, Canadians raised an official national
Flag. The official ceremony inaugurating
the new Canadian Flag was held on Parliament Hill
in Ottawa on February 15, 1965, with Governor
General Georges Vanier, Prime Minister Lester B.
Pearson, the members of the Cabinet and thousands
of Canadians in attendance.
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Remembrance
Day Flag
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Remember
Flag
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Remembrance Day and Remember Flags are
knitted polyester
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27"x 54" |
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