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The Canadian Red Ensign (French: Red Ensign canadien) served as a nautical flag and civil ensign for Canada from 1892 to 1965, and later as the de facto flag of Canada before 1965. [3] The flag is a British Red Ensign , with the Royal Union Flag in the canton , emblazoned with the shield of the coat of arms of Canada .
In 1870, the Red Ensign, with the addition of the Canadian composite shield in the fly, began to be used unofficially on land and sea [39] and was known as the Canadian Red Ensign. As new provinces joined the Confederation, their arms were added to the shield. In 1892, the British admiralty approved the use of the Red Ensign for Canadian use at ...
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Informal use of the Canadian Red Ensign as a symbol of Canada began as early as 1868. 1907–1922 1907 informal version of the Canadian Red Ensign commonly used in western Canada. Note the inclusion of all the provincial emblems. 1922–1957 1922 version of the Canadian Red Ensign used from 1922 to 1957, which was also used as a de facto ...
National Flag of Canada Day was instituted in 1996 by an Order in Council from Governor General Roméo LeBlanc, on the initiative of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. [7] At the first Flag Day ceremony in Hull, Quebec, Chrétien was confronted by demonstrators against proposed cuts to the unemployment insurance system, and while walking through the crowd he grabbed by the neck and pushed aside a ...
Canadian Naval Ensign; Use: Naval ensign: Proportion: 1:2: Adopted: 1968 as jack; 2013 as ensign: Design: White field, in the canton the National Flag of Canada, in the fly an eagle superimposed on an anchor beneath a naval crown, all blue: Use: Naval jack: Proportion: 1:2: Adopted: 1965 as jack and ensign; 1968 as ensign; 2013 re-adopted as ...
This occurred by way of popular and even Canadian governmental usage; flag-makers took to using the complex shield on Canadian Red Ensigns. None of those shields, besides the original four-segment version of 1868, were ever official in any sense, nor were any of these shields a national "coat of arms", as they had never been approved by the ...
Reverted to version as of 04:40, 11 March 2020 (UTC) it's all been explained under the shield section of "discussion". THIS is the Canadian Red Ensign. 00:01, 15 January 2021: 1,000 × 500 (51 KB) Di (they-them) Reverted to version as of 01:35, 3 March 2020 (UTC) Reverted per talk page and Canadian government.