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WILLIAM BROWNLIE, Owner and Operator
Alfred St. Wingham Box 373 'Phone 450
officials of State .assure that It la
to be considered. It Anggegs, a field,
or background,: known in heraldry as
a berry and composed .of ten equally
spaced horizontal bars, five bino. and
.five white, to represent. our ten Prov-
inces, We would lteeP the Union.
J.40,4. in the same position .as on the
Ensign as it is our titidgo of Member-
ship in the Commonwealth of .K.4-
tiona. The red maple leaf--Emblem
of Canada—would be in ths field with
a white fleur-de-lis superimposed
thereon, By using our national spit-
bois this flag in harmony with our
Coat-of-Arms and the national col,,
ours red, white and blue are retained.
That is important. Anywhere in the
world this flag would say, "This is
Canada".
A Flag Committee has been formed
by the Lions Club of Greater Mont-
real feeling that when the merits of
this design have been considered
seriously--in the light that it is. some-
thing concrete and logical put forward
as an acceptable national flag for
Canada-that Canadian Lions will en-
dorse it and urge its adoption by
Parliament—as a Service to Canada
by fostering a more enthusiastic
spirit of Citizenship and Patriotism
uniting all Canadians.
Lion Tom Henstridge,
Im. Past President,
Lions Club of St, Lambert.
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Periodically airiCe. 1924, Parliainen-
tary Committees to choose a nag
have been formed and ,debates on the
subject have taken place in Parlia-
ment, 4'..h0 most important of all,
though nothing came of it, was the
Committee of 1940-40 which wound
up with two designs; (1) a Red
Bosign with a yellow maple leaf in .
the field and (2) a flag divided Oleg-.
enally into two triangles, one red
and one white, with a large green
maple leaf in the centre,.
Neither of these flags had what
everyone wanted, This Red. Ensign
was no improvement over the old one
and the second design lacked char-
acter and tradition, No final decision
was made. Reference to Hansard.
covering the final meetings of that
Committee shows that members of
both Senate .and Commons voted for
the two final designs, but did so with
regret that no design was left before
them which gave full recognition of
both our British and French back-
ground. The compromise which was
wanted—and is so essential—was not
there.
The late Field-Marshall Jan Christ-
ian Smuts said, "Flags should reeord
by symbols the path by which a new
people had been welded into nation-
hood. They should, in the most artis-
tic way, embody the history of the
country they represent."
The best example of that is the
Union Jack • itself embodying, as it
does, the three Crosses of St. George,
St. Andrew and St. Patrick symboliz-
ing the union of the three countries
England, Scotland and Ireland. In
the American "Stars and Stripes" the
thirteen red and white bars represent
the thirteen original British Colonies
and the forty-eight white stars on the
blue field in the top corner represent
the forty-eight states. In other
words, the sight of ow flag should
recall to us our country's great his-
torical past and vigorous present, its
traditions, its heroes, its struggles for
freedom and democracy. It should
be one that reflects our national
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A Canadian Flag a nd its Relation to
CITIZENSHIP and PATRIOTISM
From Lion News.
It has been .said that "a flag is the
symbol of a nation, of all that it
stands for, and of all that it means
to all good citizens. Through our en-
thusiasfn for our flag, and our rover,
ence for it, we express our love
towards our country, our devotion to
it, and our dedication to its welfare,"
Many Lions, particularly Canadian
Lions feel that we are only a "charity"
organization — that all funds should
be used for charity. Actually we are
a "Service" organization and Interna-
tionally we pride ourselves on the
fact that we cover a wider field of
service than any other similar or-
ganization, One of the recommended
Committees for Lions Clubs is the
"Citizenship and Patriotism com-
mittee", and our Canadian Clubs
have failed to take advantage of the
potential-for-good which exists in
the enthusiastic development of this
phase of "Service".
One thing is certain if we want to
stir up a, united, enthusiastic, patrio,
tip feeling •11.1 Canada, our first need.
is a flag that has' beauty and ,carries
the best traditions of our country, It
Must also be a compromise that is
acceptable to all Canadians — right
across Canada.
Canada rIPOS. not possess a national .
flag other than the Union Jack,
Which can only be flown on land, ex-
cept to the extent that orders in
council of 1024 and 1945 permitted the
use of the Red g11Sign under certain
circumstances,
Bed Ensign
The Red Ensign is primarily a ma,.
rine flag — probably the best known
flag afloat as all ships of the British
Merchant Marine. fly it—and merch,
ant ships of all nations of the Com-
monwealth also fly it with the badge
of their dominion, protectorate or
mandated territory in the field, or
fly. For that reason it could never
be a distinctively Canadian flag—a
flag our ships and aircraft could
carry around the world and be read,
ily recognized as. Canadian,
characteristics and mahe-up; one
that when displayed in a group Of
other national flags will, of itself, say,
"This .is Canada!,
Canada's history is full of tradition,
Traditions of two great nationalities,
the French and the gn&11sh, who
fought and struggled to lay the fowl,
dation on which this nation is being
built, From Jacques Cartier'sfirst
voyage in 1534 it was known as New
France until 1859 when general
James Wolfe took Quebec from the
French General Montealra, leading
to the Treaty of Paris in 1863 by
which this land became British, Both
Wolfe and Nfontealm lost their lives
in that battle, which some historians
call the most important ever fought
on American soil, However, the
Quebec Act of 1774 assured the
French Canadians the free exercise
of their religion, civil rights, civil
laws and customs—a freedom which
they have always enjoyed under the
Union Jack. We also must not for-
get that it was British and French
Canadians who fought the United
States in 1812 to keep this Canada.
Thus the historic foundation of
this country, or nation, was built by
these two nationalities and that is
reflected very beautifully in symbols
of heraldry on our national Coat-of-
Arms,
Supported by the lion holding the
Union Jack on a lance and a unicorn
holding a lance from which flies the
old French flag with the three fleur-
de-lis on blue, the shield of our Ar-
morial Bearings is divided into five
parts containing (1) the three lions of
England; (2) the lion, rampant, of
Scotland; (3) the harp of Ireland;
(4) the fleur-de-lis, standard of those
old Fathers of Canada; and (5) the
maple leaves, emblematic of Canada
today and which includes all those
good Canadians of other nationalities
who have made Canada their land of
adoption.
In the shields of the Provinces of
Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta the
Cross of St. George, which is the
main Cross in the Union Jack, repre-
sents the old English background.
1British Columbia uses the complete
jUnion Jack. The old English lion is
I used by Quebec, New Brunswick,
Prince Edward Island, Saskatche-
wan and Newfoundland. Nova Scotia,
with its Scotch ancestry, uses the
Scottish lion rampant and Quebec
the old French fleurtde-lis, quite
correctly because the foundations of
those two old connections are still
found in these Provinces.
These are not marks of colonialism
or subservience—and they are not,
just Provinicia] marks, They are i
marks of quality like the hallmark
1 "Sterling" on silver—legacies handed
clown 'to us. Natural pride should
prompt us to have a flag that would
tell the rest of the world we have this
heritage and that we are proud of it.
There are some very interesting
facts about the fleur-de-lis that few
Canadians know or realize. One of
the most graceful figures in heraldry
it was originally the bearing of the
Bourbons of France. It was added
to the three lions on the English
Coat-of-Arms by Edward III in the
year 1320 and that is why some of
you who saw the recent picture
"Henry V" may have been confused
to see the English ' as well as the
French Warriors wearing the fleur-
de-lis on their armour at that battle
of Agincourt which took place in 1415.
It was dropped by France when
that country became a republic in
1792 and nine years later, in 1801, it
was replaced on the English Coat-of-
Arms by the harp of Ireland. There-
after, it ceased to be used by any
country as a national emblem until
November 21st, 1921, when by Royal
Proclamation Canada's Coat-of-Arms
was assigned to us and the fleur-de-
lis was authorized among other
"honourable augmentations" to be
used by Canada to represent that
vital period of more than two and a a-.
quarter centuries in the early history I
and development of this country. It
is now the fully mark that takes us ;
back to those courageous, pioneering
men and women who opened up 1
seven, or eight, of our ten Provinces
and whose descendants now number 1 I
a good one-third of Canada's wide-
spread population. So you see, it has; ;
become a distinctively Canadian
mark. It is still retained by the
Royal Family and used above the
border or headband of the Crowns
of the King, Queen and Royal Family
and could, therefore be called a
Commonwealth emblem.
The design for a flag for Canada
has been submitted to Ottawa and
letters from the Prime Minister, the
Secretary of State, and other high
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