Today, the Countdown to Canada Day begins! Canada Day (Fête du Canada) the anniversary of July 1, 1867, the effective date of the Constitution Act, 1867 (then called the British North America Act, 1867), which united the three separate colonies of the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into a single Dominion within the British Empire called Canada. It is the Canadian national holiday, celebrated in a similar fashion to Independence Day in the United States.
Our journey will travel east to west, catching the rising sun first in the province of Nova Scotia. Wikipedia describes this flag, which was created in 1858 thusly, “The flag of the modern Canadian province, a blue saltire on a white field (background), is a simple figure-ground reversal of the flag of Scotland (a white saltire, Saint Andrew‘s cross, on a blue field), charged with an inescutcheon bearing the royal arms of Scotland, a gold shield with a red lion rampant surrounded by a loyal double tressure (a double border decorated with fleurs de lis).”
This flag was a gift from my parents in law.
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