I have just returned from two weeks in Eastern Canada, and I observed a lot of flags in the various provinces up there.
In Europe, some countries -- like Switzerland, Norway and Denmark -- seem to fly their national flags even more than we flag-waving Americans do. In other countries, like Germany and Italy, the national flags are rarely seen. Canada seems to be full of lags. In the Maritime provinces, the provincial flag is usually flown beside the national flag. In Quebec, however, the blue and white provincial flag is everywhere, but the red and white Canadian flag was quite rare. Most provincial government buildings were flying only the flag of Quebec, without the Canadian flag, mostly of national government buildings and tourist hotels. I can't imagine a state office building in New Jersey or New York flying only the state flag without causing a considerable controversy. Also, on the West coast of Cape Breton, I saw a lot of "Acadian" flags, but was not really certain of what they mean or why they seemed pretty much restricted to that area. TIA, Dan M -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
