RP: Canadian Flag Referendum, 1965

Flag Referendum, June 18, 1965


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Perhaps . . .

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Repost from the runoff thread:

Both the current Maple Leaf flag and "Pearson's Pennant" look great in my opinion (though why, oh why, do the leaves in the prototypes look like they were drawn in MS Paint or some other crappy programme?), in my honest opinion. Pearson's Pennant, in particular, reminds me of my own state flag:

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All three - the two Canadian flags and my own state flag - are equally beautiful in their own way.

In an ATL universe, however, where trying to replace the Red Ensign is verboten (I'm aiming it at people like AHIMPERIALIST), I hate to say it but I think the Blue Ensign is more classier, and not just because of other Commonwealth realms like Australia using Blue Ensigns (for one thing, the green leaves come out more in the Blue Ensign). Since that is basically a minority position, in that case maybe a typical compromise can be reached by combining the Red and Blue Ensigns into one. In that case, we could use the OTL original 9-striped version of the Hawaiian flag - basically give the middle finger to Newfoundland and have Ottawa say we don't want them (but don't mind annexing the Turks and Caicos to Nova Scotia and maybe taking over the whole West Indies Federation). Or add a 10th stripe and call it "quel'qun", using it to denote all expansion after the creation of the 8th and 9th provinces, respectively.

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Just be careful - I'm already using that idea for a alt-flag of New England in a TL where New England is an independent country. :cool:
 

Thande

Donor
I always thought it was funny that the Quebecois seem to think the flag should have blue in it, when the white in the Canadian flag stands for the French influence...
 

Wolfpaw

Banned
IIRC, this clumsy looking thing almost did become the flag of Canada. Had it not been for the current one, I believe it was mentioned that this would likely have beat out the Pearson proposal.
 
I always thought it was funny that the Quebecois seem to think the flag should have blue in it, when the white in the Canadian flag stands for the French influence...

and here i always thought the white stood for our countries snow:cool:
 
Wolfpaw: it was Pearson's Pennant that made it to the House committee, not the other one. I prefer the Pennant to Deux Nations, but the Maple Leaf to the Pennant.
 

Tellus

Banned
I always thought Pearson's Pennant was an ideal choice, personally.

Adding blue to Canada's official colors would have helped Canadian unity, IMO. It would have been very well received in Quebec.

I always thought it was funny that the Quebecois seem to think the flag should have blue in it, when the white in the Canadian flag stands for the French influence...

Technically true but its not perceived as such nowadays. The Blue/Red thing is so strong that people forget the white has any meaning whatsoever, on both sides.
 
I looked through this thread again from what i have learned i now hate every flag that has a Fleurs Des Lis on it that is yellow.


The Yellow Fleurs Des Lis symbolises the French monarchy... which is long dead, the White Fleurs Des Lis acctualy symbolises purity and origionaaly represented the Virgin Mary, so any flag with Yellow Fleurs Des Lis is showing support for a monarchist France and any flag with White Fleurs Des Lis would show Canada as an overly Catholic nation, which is bad because Catholicism does not hake up a majority and because we have religious freedom.

We may need a different coloured Fleurs Des Lis if we want any at all, perhaps blue?
 
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