{"id":1800,"date":"2017-11-09T22:17:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T02:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2017-11-09T22:17:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T02:17:53","slug":"red-ensign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/red-ensign\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Canadian Red Ensign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles D. Maginley of Mahone Bay (who happens to be my stepfather) has been collecting old flags and plates featuring the heraldry of Canada for some years. He’s a former naval officer and Canadian Coast Guard instructor, and has authored some books on the history of the Canadian Coast Guard<\/a>, so the flags are a bit of a sideline.<\/p>\n

He put together a talk about the Canadian Red Ensign, formerly the official flag of Canada before we got the Maple Leaf Flag in 1965. He has presented the talk, along with real flags and pictures of ships sailing them, to several groups such as the Master Mariners and the gatherings of sailing aficionados one finds around Lunenburg.<\/p>\n

It’s a specialized window on history which true history buffs find interesting. I thought his talk should get immortalized on YouTube so that such people who are not so fortunate to live in our local part of Nova Scotia will be able to find it.<\/p>\n