I always liked that the US flag had the same colors as Britain’s. And yes, Wales should be recognized.
Did Canada change it’s flag?
I’m thinking of that old song “The Thistle, Shamrock, Rose Entwine the Maple Leaf Forever” (something like that!).
My mother told me that used to be Canada’s national anthem but they changed it because it left out the French.
I was never sure if the flag actually looked the way it is described in the song.
Oh well, I am a conservative, I don’t ever want anything to change, but change is part of life.
I love flags, I understand why it might need to change. But I really did not like those pink and black ones, nor that kind of multi-striped thing. They’ll have to think long and hard about it.
Do you think if Scotland gets independence that they’ll get their act together and stop being a nation on the dole? They used to be amoung the most industrious people, I think they’re a wreck now. Can they change that? I hope so.
I know I rambled on and on in this post!
Canada has two national anthems - O Canada - in French and English though they are not literal translations of the other.
The one written in 1908 by Sir Robert Weir displaced all the others in English Canada. O Canada was not made official until 1980.
Did Canada change it’s flag?
Somewhat complicated, that question. The current Canadian flag dates from 1965. In a strict legal sense, Canada did not have a national flag prior to that date. There was a Canadian Red Ensign (with the Union Flag in the corner and the Coat of Arms of Canada in the fly on a red field) that was commonly used to represent Canada, but it did not have the status of a national flag (unlike the other Dominions of Australia and New Zealand which had full legal status in law).
My mother told me that used to be Canada’s national anthem but they changed it because it left out the French.
It was never officially Canada's National Anthem, but in the days when 'God Save the King/Queen' was the anthem of all the British Empire, it was one of the songs that was sometimes used to differentiate Canada when a separate anthem was needed - but so was "O, Canada." "O, Canada" basically won when King Edward VIII stood at attention for it, as he would have for "God Save the King" when dedicating a Canadian war memorial in 1936, and this act was repeated by his brother in 1939. It officially became the Canadian National Anthem in 1980, although the Canadian government had announced it as their choice in 1967.
I love flags, I understand why it might need to change. But I really did not like those pink and black ones, nor that kind of multi-striped thing. They’ll have to think long and hard about it.
That's one reason I like the first design better than the others. It's no more complex than the existing one - and the colours have meaning.
Do you think if Scotland gets independence that they’ll get their act together and stop being a nation on the dole? They used to be amoung the most industrious people, I think they’re a wreck now. Can they change that? I hope so.
I don't know. If independence really lead to a resurgence in national pride, that would be a good thing - but I fear it will just lead them further down the path to unified Europe than anything else.
They'll probably have to. I'm sure England will retain control of whatever is left of the wealth of Empire, which probably isn't much anyway as they've been squandering it for the last 70 years pretending that Socialism works. /rant
We aren’t all dole scroungers, but I get your point.