The story of the Union Jack; how it grew and what it is, particularly in its connection with the history of Canada (1897)
Cumberland, Barlow, 1846-1913 · Toronto W. Briggs · leaf 134
ot think-ing so much of heraldry and ancient heraldicrules, as of making a flag, and, while combin-ing the two crosses, of making two flags intoone. When the flag-makers broadened the white,they did it to restore to the Union flag a part The Jack of Queen Anne, 1707. 119 of the white ground of the… … 25. Fort Niagara, 1759.(Reproduced from an old print.) annals of the next change, which was madealmost a century afterwards, in the UnionJack. It may have been that some of the designerswere sailors who had carried the red cross of 120 The Story of the Uxiox Jack. St. Greorge, and now that it was…
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