Canadian Provincial Flags

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by kitchener-lrt

I think Kitchener's flag is nice....not!

Is city hall disappearing into a hole?

[MolsonExport]

Fess up. Who the hell picked Ontario as a fave flag?

[Only The Lonely..]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Fess up. Who the hell picked Ontario as a fave flag?

It was me, but only because it reminds me of my own province's great looking flag.

[Ayreonaut]

I'm shocked so many people like BC's flag.

[Daveography]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Is city hall disappearing into a hole?

Ever played "Portal"?

[MrOilers]

That Lethbridge flag looks like an American flag as it would be shown on an old Atari video game console.

[Rico Rommheim]

This one looks like some guy is taking a dump.

[Distill3d]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

This one looks like some guy is taking a dump.

well, i was going to suggest this looks like Canada's position whilst negotiating with the United States...

[vid]

Well you just ruined my childhood. Thanks.

[LeftCoaster]

Vid we all know you ruined your own childhood.

[dennis]

Like Quebec City and Regina, Winnipeg's is also blue and canary yellow.

"One with the strength of many" from the philosophy of Unicity.
http://img.groundspeak.com

[Canasian]

I like NB. It's a bad ass flag, on the other end of the spectrum is PEI. BC's is plain cool, AB's is way boring , NL's is modern along with NU. I have a soft spot for boring ON, b/c it's my home, but it is way too similar to MB. NS and QC are in the same vein, representative to predecessors who settled the province.

Here is the Labrador flag:

[Ayreonaut]

The AB flag looks kick-ass hanging over my bedroom window at my dad's (in BC).

[MonctonRad]

I chose NS, PEI & BC.

The Nova Scotia flag is very effective in displaying the roots of the province and I think it also conveys strength and power with the shield superimposed on the cross of St. Andrew.

The PEI flag seems surprisingly unpopular on this thread. I chose it partly because that is where I am originally from but I have also always found it to be an attractive flag as well. Perhaps most Canadians don't understand the symbolism of the flag. It is one large oak tree shading three smaller trees. This stands for Mother England protecting the three counties of PEI (Prince, Queens and King's counties). The provincial motto is parva sub ingenti, meaning "the small under the protection of the great".

I find the BC flag attractive and powerful.

I currently live in NB and I must admit that I am floored by the popularity of our provincial flag in this poll. While it is an attractive flag, I am not sure what the symbolism of the flag has to do with our province. The main symbol on the flag is a sailing ship, but if you look carefully at the ship, it is a galley! What's up with that! I'm sure there has never been a galley either built in or sailed upon NB waters. It just seems kind of random.

[kirjtc2]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I currently live in NB and I must admit that I am floored by the popularity of our provincial flag in this poll. While it is an attractive flag, I am not sure what the symbolism of the flag has to do with our province.

Same here. And not only that, New Brunswick is the one Atlantic province that's least dependent on the sea.

[habfanman]

The North American Vexillological Society conducted a poll in 2001 and their results closely match ours, although some of the state flags are awful. They have many, 'state seal on blue background' flags that all tend to look the same. Not sure about their first choice, New Mexico. It looks like an insurance company flag to me

http://www.nava.org/Flag%20Design/State&Provincial%20Survey%202001/surveyresults.htm

1
New Mexico
8.61

2
Texas
8.13

3
Quebec
8.04

4
Maryland
7.97

5
Alaska
7.96

6
Arizona
7.92

7
Puerto Rico
7.66

8
District of Columbia
7.48

9
Marshall Islands
7.19

10
South Carolina
7.16

11
Hawaii
7.15

12
Nova Scotia
7.06

13
California
7.00

14
Tennessee
6.98

15
Ohio
6.87

16
Colorado
6.83

17
Nunavut
6.72

18
New Brunswick
6.68

19
F. S. Micronesia
6.45

20
Labrador
6.45

21
Prince Edward Island
6.30

22
Mississippi
6.30

23
Wyoming
6.28

24
British Columbia
6.28

25
Newfoundland
6.24

26
Saskatchewan
6.22

27
American Samoa
6.16

28
Rhode Island
6.12

29
Alabama
6.06

30
Northwest Territories
5.89

31
Yukon
5.86

32
Indiana
5.77

33
North Carolina
5.34

34
Florida
5.17

35
Alberta
5.00

36
Louisiana
4.98

37
Virgin Islands
4.94

38
Massachusetts
4.78

39
Oklahoma
4.78

40
Guam
4.77

41
N. Mariana Islands
4.73

42
Iowa
4.72

43
Ontario
4.64

44
Manitoba
4.60

45
Arkansas
4.59

46
New Jersey
4.57

47
Washington
4.53

48
Missouri
4.50

49
Illinois
4.38

50
Connecticut
4.32

51
West Virginia
4.16

52
Delaware
4.08

53
New York
3.93

54
Virginia
3.93

55
Nevada
3.88

56
North Dakota
3.69

57
Pennsylvania
3.69

58
Utah
3.47

59
Michigan
3.46

60
Maine
3.39

61
Vermont
3.37

62
Oregon
3.30

63
New Hampshire
3.18

64
Idaho
3.17

65
Wisconsin
3.16

66
Kentucky
3.16

67
Minnesota
3.13

68
South Dakota
3.12

69
Kansas
3.01

70
Montana
3.00

71
Nebraska
2.98

72
Georgia
2.36

[Ayreonaut]

New Mexico's sucks, Maryland's looks bad on paper, but could look alright in real life.

[eemy]

I like Maryland's. I'm surprised Kansas wasn't on the bottom of the list.

[DHLawrence]

Georgia's is probably at the bottom because of the design up to 2001, which incorporated the Stars and Bars. They took it out in 2001, probably after the poll was done.

Maryland's is busy, but not too bad. Not as bad as some of the others.

[The Chemist]

Nunavut has the best flag in Canada (aside from the Maple Leaf, of course).