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Flag of the governor-general.. The flag of the West Indies Federation was used between 1958 and 1962. It bore four equally spaced narrow white stripes with a large orange-gold circle over the middle two lines in the center of the flag, undulating horizontally across a blue field representing the Caribbean Sea and the sun shining upon the waves.
Flag of the British Windward Islands. The flag of the British Windward Islands was the flag of the Federal Colony of the Windward Islands. It was a Blue Ensign with the badge of the Governor-in-chief in the fly. The separate colonies under the Federal Colony each had their own ensigns.
The United Empire Loyalists brought this flag to British North America when they left the United States. In present-day Canada, the flag continues to be used as symbol of pride and heritage for loyalist townships and organizations. [2] 1867–1965: Canada (national flag) The Union Jack served as the formal national flag of Canada from ...
Union Flag 1632–1801 Union Flag 1801–1871 Barbados & Windward Is. 1871–1885 Crown colony 1885–1958 Province of Barbados (West Indies Federation) 1958–1966 Vice-Royal insignia Governor's Flag [2] 1870–1966 Queen Elizabeth II Royal Cypher: 1953–2021
The Federation of the West Indies was not the first attempt at a British Caribbean federation. The history of the previous attempts at federations and unions, in part, explains the failure of the 1958 Federation. The initial federal attempts never went so far as to try to encompass all of the British West Indies (BWI), but were more regional in ...
The Caribbean with West Indies Federation members in red. The short-lived federation was made up of British West Indies colonies from 1958–62.. Between 1958 and 1962, there was a short-lived federation between several English-speaking Caribbean countries, called the West Indies Federation, which consisted of all the island nations (except the Bahamas), and the territories (excluding Bermuda ...
British West Indies in 1900 BWI in red and pink (blue islands are other territories with English as an official language). The British West Indies (BWI) were the territories in the West Indies under British rule, including Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada ...
British republican flag proposal used within the Chartism movement. A British republican flag, which originated in 1816, in use until at least 1935. [103] British republican flag proposal within the Chartism movement. The Republican tricolour proposed by Hugh Williams in 1838 and described in LJ "Spartacus" Linton's 1851 poem"Our Tricolour". [104]