TIGHAR is a non-profit institute dedicated to sound historical investigation, responsible aviation archaeology, and genuine historic preservation.
Canadian Aviation Historical Society
CHAA Aircraft Recovery Team
Our Society is the world's premier organization dedicated to the preservation of Canada's diverse aviation heritage. A resource for aviation history in Canada.
Vintage Wings of Canada not only keeps alive the memory of those airmen and airwomen who have gone before us—their aircraft and their stories—but also the skills, techniques and tools to maintain, restore and even build these extraordinary machines from scratch.
Vintage Wings of Canada is a not-for-profit, charitable organization with a collection of historically significant aircraft and is run entirely by volunteers. It is our mission to acquire, restore, maintain and fly classic aircraft significant to the early history of powered flight in Canada, focusing largely on the aircraft of the Second World War.
Aviation archaeology is a recognized sub-discipline within archaeology and underwater archaeology as a whole. It is an activity practiced by both enthusiasts and academics in pursuit of finding, documenting, recovering, and preserving sites important in aviation history. For the most part, these sites are aircraft wrecks and crash sites, but also include structures and facilities related to aviation. It is also known in some circles and depending on the perspective of those involved as aircraft archaeology or aerospace archaeology and has also been described variously as crash hunting, underwater aircraft recovery, wreck chasing, or wreckology.
Source: Wikipedia
The Red Ensign seems to be a military flag in Canadian history. I don't think a campaign to restore it will go far over now, more than 60 years later. People know the flag with the maple leaf in its centre. Few will know (or remember) the old flags, including the Red Ensign. Also, it seems to be about Canada's heritage with the British and the monarchy in England. I think we have outgrown that. It is symbolic, not purposeful or necessary. I don't want to forget our past, our links to England, and France. But, I'm Canadian, the maple leaf is Canadian. I don't want to trade it in for another flag. But, I do still like the name: The Dominion of Canada. It sounds formal and elegant but its about being under British sovereignty, so a cosmetic title and not used any longer.
Dominion Society of Canada - Restore the Red Ensign
In 1965, the national flag of Canada was changed from the Canadian Red Ensign to the current Maple Leaf flag without so much as a referendum to give people a voice to see if they wanted to change the current flag or not.
In 2014, while it might be too late to make the Canadian Red Ensign the national flag of Canada, it is never too late to right this historical wrong by making the Canadian Red Ensign an official flag of Canada similar in status to the current national flag and the Royal Union Flag.
The Canadian Red Ensign should be flown at all appropriate war memorials and cemeteries, Canada Day, and other places and events where Canada's past should be honoured. The flag should be also be accorded the same reverence and respect as the national flag.
via - Bring Back the Red Ensign. (Facebook group, not active)
I also found - Canadian Red Ensign Campaign The website is 404 but the page is still on Facebook, not active.
National Flag of Canada Day — February 15
At the stroke of noon on February 15, 1965, Canada’s red and white maple leaf flag was raised for the very first time on Parliament Hill. On the same day in 1996, National Flag of Canada Day was declared.
Canadian Flag Etiquette
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The National Flag of Canada should always fly alone on its own flagpole or mast.
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The National Flag of Canada can be flown at night without being lit.
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When the National Flag of Canada is raised or lowered, or when it is carried past in a parade or review, people should face the flag, men should remove their hats, and all should remain silent.
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The National Flag of Canada is lowered to half-mast on occasions when a demonstration of sorrow is called for. Canada has its own Rules for Half-masting.
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Replace a faded or torn flag with a new one. When a flag becomes tattered and is no longer in a suitable condition for use, it should be destroyed in a dignified way.
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The National Flag of Canada should be treated with respect.
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The dimensions/proportions of the National Flag of Canada have an exact ratio of 2 to 1 (twice as long as it is wide), and must not be modified.
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The National Flag of Canada should not be written on or marked in any way, nor be covered by other objects.
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Nothing should be pinned or sewn on the National Flag of Canada.
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The National Flag of Canada should never be dipped or lowered to the ground as a means of paying a salute or compliment to any person or thing.
Disposal of the National Flag of Canada
A flag is considered to be worn when the colour has faded, it has developed a hole or the outermost seam (fly) of the flag has become frayed. When a flag becomes tattered and is no longer in a suitable condition for use, it should be disposed of in a dignified manner.
The disposal of a flag may be handled in the following manner:
- Flags made of natural fibres (wool, cotton, linen) should be burned in a dignified manner, privately, without ceremony or public attention being drawn to the destruction of the material.
- Flags made of synthetic material (nylon or polyester) should not be burned due to environmental damage and potential fire hazard. They should be respectfully torn into strips, with each element of the flag reduced to a single colour, so that the remaining pieces do not resemble a flag. The individual pieces should then be placed in a bag for disposal -- the shreds of fabric should not be reused or fashioned into anything.
Beechwood Cemetery, the National Cemetery of Canada, operates a program to respectfully retire national and provincial flags, consistent with the National Flag of Canada etiquette.
The government website has a pdf file with the proposed flags for Canada.
Canadian Links (Originally collected for my Canadian Culture ezine).
People I've bought coffee for on ko-fi.
Noah Nowhere - Exploring old and abandoned places, somewhere in Ontario. Also on Instagram.
Shandi with the site: Small Town Canada - She was off to a great start but hasn't posted in awhile. See also Instagram and her YouTube account.
Canada's Magic
Robyn Lacy - historical archaeologist with a PhD, focused on burial grounds, historic landscapes, and built heritage. Spade and the Grave.
I have seen red trilliums growing wild and I've had some growing in the garden. They need shade and they need mulch over winter - as if they were growing on the floor of a forest, which is where they grow naturally. I never noticed a smell from them, not nice or stinky.
Cottage Life - Five Canadian Plants that Stink
- Eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus); Western skunk cabbage (Lysichiton americanum)
- Red trillium (Trillium erectrum)
- Kamchatka lily (Fritillaria camschatcensis)
- Pawpaw (Asimina tribola)
- Dutchman’s pipe (Aristolochia macrophylla)
