The National Flag League offered a clear rationale for its choice of colours. Red, it explained, was the traditional colour of British-Canadians, and white was that of French-Canadians.

Since Confederation, the Canadian national flag had been the British Union Jack - a symbol of Canada's former colonial status. The Red Ensign - a modified version of the flag of the British ...

The two magnificent west towers above the Great ... Britain. The Royal Standard is flown whenever the Sovereign is within the Abbey or its Precincts. It is also flown whenever the Sovereign opens ...

James's central ambition was to make these two very foreign countries into one new state, Great Britain ... National Library of Scotland and the Keeper of Manuscripts is unfolding a set of flag ...