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troll? oh, I geddit. If I disagree with DND policy, I am not entitled to an opinion. 

Isn't the band thing a bit of a red herring? Does inspecting the guard of honour require a band or pipes? Seems to me it has more to do with a slacker GG and a lazy DND.

Perhaps they could strike a brand new medal for service in uncomfortable weather.

The Department of National Defence set a "threshold of [outdoor] participation" last week, effectively doing away with ceremony when it's below -10C. - Globe and Mail, January 27, 2009 "The primary reason for setting this threshold is we are simply not equipped with ceremonial dress for extreme...

"None of us saw a Canadian Red Ensign in those years." - Lester Pearson, Prime Minister, to the House of Commons, 30 June 1964.

Some of the threads are historical, but I think the original GordJenkins thread should go back into the news section where it began (i.e. Vimy 2007 and follow up). The "Historical Flags of Canada posters" are also news - they are brand new posters that were created in 2007 and they are...

Hmmm ... 4070 readers  ... yeah we had better hide this thread in the history section!

The Maple Leaf Forever, circa 1918

First World War poster

Available from the Department of Canadian Heritage at http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/posters_flags_e.cfm Evolution of the Canadian Red Ensign (1870-1965) Drapeaux du régime français (1534-1760)

Sir Arthur Currie unveils a monument to the Canadian Field Artillery at Vimy in 1918. showing the Canadian Flag of that time, bearing a shield with the arms of the nine provinces. For better detail, see the Canadian Heritage website, which offers a poster called the "Evolution of the...

Showing the flag on the Western Front. "A new concept of Canadian nationality is born." This and other pics can be viewed at http://bannerman2.googlepages.com/home

Showing the flag on the Western Front:

Pictures speak so much louder than words -- especially erroneous words. And many, many words have been expended trying to prove that the Red Ensign was "not seen" in the First World War. The most notable was from the mouth of former PM Lester Pearson, who twice misled the House of Commons in...

I can't resist one more post in this irreverent vein. It just so happens that Saturday Night magazine in 1914 published a cartoon showing a mock-coat-of-arms for Sir Sam Hughes containing an "A-- proper, rampant" alongside "a Whale blowing," and "On a Mushroom, argent, a Cap and Bells...

Load and clear. Sorry about that, GDawg. :salute: Still, it would have been funny if that ass had been named after Sir Sam. However, is OldSolduer sure about his post? Was it not Sir Arthur Currie and Sir Edward Kemp who ensured that the Canadian formations were put back together, rather than...

Haha - ok so does that mean that GDawg knows who the beast is named after? Why don't you enlighten us? And if this donkey is not named after Sir Sam Hughes, then it should be!!!

gord jenkins is wrong that the flag on the podium in the 1936 dedication ceremony at Vimy was a Union Jack. This photo shows clearly that it was a large post-1922 Canadian Red Ensign.

How appropriate! Presumably this donkey is named after Sir Sam Hughes, the controversial (and quite mad) Minister of Militia before and during the Great War (until he was finally sacked by Sir Robert Borden)? Hughes is best remembered as the "genius" behind the Ross Rifle fiasco .... truly a...

The poster from Heritage Canada features a 1907 flag with a shield bearing the arms of all 9 provinces (Newfoundland had its own distinctive Red and Blue Ensigns).