by

Alistair B. Fraser

 

This book about the flags of Canada is being posted on the Web. The textual material is being made available first. Over a hundred illustrations will be added slowly. In most cases the images employed will be photographs of the actual flags (whether historic or modern), but, in some cases, a drawing or reconstruction will be used.

Copyright notice: Unless otherwise indicated (such as in the caption to an illustration), all of the material (text and photographs) is copyrighted by Alistair B. Fraser. (Clearly, the copyright to the flag designs, themselves, are not held by the author, but the copyright to the majority of the photographs or drawings of them posted at this site are). Permission is granted for an individual to make only a single electronic copy or paper copy for personal reference purposes. Permission is not granted for an individual or institution to make more than a single copy, or take part in any arraignment where a third party is either paid or charged for a copy or the reproduction of one. Nor is permission is granted for distribution of any of this material (in whole or part) from any Internet site (other than the author's site of fraser.cc). Inquiries should be made to the author if you wish to make other than a single copy for personal use or to distribute any of the material from your own Web site. (If you think that this copyright statement is overkill, you probably have not been working on the Web very long.)

initial posting: January 30, 1998
most recent update: January 30,1998
© Alistair B. Fraser

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

PROLOGUE

i. DEDICATION
ii. FOREWORD (by John Ross Matheson)
iii. PREFACE
iv. INTRODUCTION

 

THE COUNTRY

I. CANADA'S NATIONAL SYMBOLS
II. CANADA'S HEAD OF STATE
III. THE ROYAL UNION FLAG
IV. THE CANADIAN ENSIGNS
V. A CANADIAN FLAG FOR CANADA
VI. FLAGS OF NATIONAL DEFENCE
VII. OF CROWNS, COMMISSIONS, AND COUNCILS
VIII. NATIONAL FLAGS OF OCCASION

 

THE PROVINCES

IX. THE RISE OF PROVINCIAL FLAGS
X. BRITISH COLUMBIA
XI. ALBERTA
XII. SASKATCHEWAN
XIII. MANITOBA
XIV. ONTARIO
XV. QUEBEC
XVI. NEW BRUNSWICK
XVII. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
XVIII. NOVA SCOTIA
XIX. NEWFOUNDLAND
XX. THE TERRITORIES

 

APPENDICES

i. GLOSSARY
ii. BIBLIOGRAPHY
iii. CHRONOLOGY