A little background on the Canadian flag: The design that became the Canadian flag was conceived by Dr. George Stanley, then Dean of Arts at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. I am proud to say that "Doc Stanley" was my history prof at the time. His design proposal was based upon the College Flag, a design that originated about 1920.

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I remember clearly that cold February evening when our pipe band and bugler mustered on the parade square to lower the Canadian Ensign for the last time and to raise the new flag. Though I recall being most concerned with my body temperature at the time, that lonely ceremony now has a very special place in my memory, and I was fortunate to find that a fellow cadet had photographed the event.