PhD candidate,
University of New Brunswick
(Fredericton)
February 24 marks the 50th anniversary of New Brunswick’s flag. This historic semicentennial follows less than two weeks behind the adoption of Canada’s national flag. Unlike in Ottawa’s House of Commons, however, where the flag debate spiraled down in some instances to accusations of political partisanship and linguistic slurs, the development of New Brunswick’s flag took on far less controversial tones.
This is because New Brunswick had already been assigned
armorial bearings by Queen Victoria in 1868; a design that was to "…be
borne for the said respective Provinces on seals, shields, banners, flags or
otherwise, according to the laws of arms."[1]
