Red flag

Your article on the Red Ensign flag (“Treasures of Canada”) in the August-September 2018 issue gives a misleading impression that the flag shown in the article “was officially adopted shortly after Confederation.” Not so. That flag evolved in 1957 with three red leaves on the shield from a flag that was formally proclaimed by order-in-council in 1921 with three green maple leaves. Ninety years after Confederation does not qualify for the term “shortly”!