From: "Daniel J. Matyola" > 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. >
Try envisioning it on the capitol building in one of the deep-south states of the old Confederacy; say South Carolina, Georgia or Mississippi. > 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. Google "French and Indian War". -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
