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ed and sbdued by the highest a L | 0 er ay the House of Commons, Again

in 1933 during the Bennet reg

Jy = Caleb’ C. Colton ime a resolution was introduced

P Mra, Ann Hanloy tanalang It mania i foal Wits by ©, D.” Dickie (Con), This
, “There's a Divinity tha debate was adjourned on a vote

le = Rents mide ibe Guennens shapes our anda, of 64-49, At that time this was
National flay, ‘This is quite in| Roush hew them ay thought to be an end to the

correct, Canada was the first we: will discussion, Hut periodically

‘ ‘This seems to be what slike subject cropy up again. But
Petate oe |/a! inv QOMITGRIIIN CCK |, srpentng fo the Canacien Cag (Ci, *aeiecsS7OPH Stas Bat
February 3, 1800, the Canadian (Where the demand was for | Wilon has gone so. n1udh 62 the
red ann n was officlally auth: [something entirely different We hostory of the race? Having
rized i tho British Admiralty [fl more and more people heen good enough for Canad
for uso in Canada, Until that {Would be satisfied with the pres-linna in thres or more warn it
time ships of Canadian registry {Mt Jack are are agrecuble to would seem to be too much of
had flown the Union duck, But |Maving a maple leat in the {ly a Canadian institution to for.
we} identificati The maple | yet
{t Was then thought that Can-|)0r) Hien } |i
| " ye fleaf has of course become a/"You may say It's « small piece
Meete ORR RCT HRB Mould Save leer adlan emblem through use| Oe bunting,
G. R, McGillivray Canadian Coatofarme was ad, (Dut even that may provoke dis-! You may eall it an old
& oe He 5 sion ax there seems to be plored rag!
itl cont ehuitH [ference a opin To Yet ee ek nade
» changes have boon {What color the Maple Lear majestic
Late inthe eee poe should ,be. Ontario evidently! And time has ennobled
various provinces in addition to [@°* Nol believe that B.C the flag

5. has any colored maple leaves! —_—__—_ The Annual General Meeting of the Society will be
which ATberta, Saskatchewan 2 ‘ her |
and Newfoundland have beon| [¢ would be a great pity if) SKIPPING TIME

eipsing ¢ held at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, March 26, 1959 in the Dining
Been range: en ene eat MME [Sack’on the flag. au much of Leta fone sos and Hore tne ||| Roont of Gie-Stlver Keon, White Hose, BC.
Lo EE Ee withthe your history {a eontained in |Wateh the rope go round and Annuldl "Boshorta\-wili bg based near Tee
" flab lobes sh like [that symbol, Surely we would round, & E
HAG red eran rat ne [nol deny: our Beith origina Real yo tapping’ on ihe geausa| ||” woud MetsTele tact epcean eee ean
|may lead to confusion, ‘There is |PMe cross of St George the He
hot much danger of this now [Greek cross on a white ground |yranny children in a row
as the Canadian flag is pretty |!§ said to have become the!Give and take and we will find,

jfamiliar on both sea and land, |tmblem of ae ee eh tt he) We shall have a lovely time.
$2.95 to $495 |All that is required is for Par-|¥°ar ihe a i led caren 1|Tapping, tapping, tapning feet
liament to accept officially the /f¢ en thes dtebon anal Caughity: children here we meet
H LL |flag that has been through three Ma ae na ie “ TE eLtE. Skipping fast and skipping slow ;
PELTOP” © lecitit comin cor rei glen i eel PRP aan er
66 years has served as their | Then ee bl stl —Jane Johnson.
SHOE RE-NU flag. Often when contentious |18t when the emblem o Eneee
subjects have been in the news |eorse was worn on the me |
15228 Pacific Ave, for a long time we are suddenly conte oF Sees ae ee
s'conscious of the easing of the began to evolve, At first ia
order to make known . the|
nationality of those on ship
board, a lance or staff’ with
the Jacque was raised at the
ese bow of the ship. From fhis
rT) fae custom of raising the cross the | }
: French jacque became known
as the Jack :
The cross of St. Andrew the| |
CATERING |martyr, the Scottish emblem is
also pped in legend. St *
Andrew was far too humble to}
be crucified on the Latin cross
of his Saviour, so persuaded | |
his captors to u the Satire
or Soltier, His remains and the |
cross were taken by a Greek
monk who carried them away
in a ship which was wrecked
jon the shores of Scotland then |
called Caledonia, about the |
year 370 AD. Here he built a
church in which to house the
relics. To this church barefoot
came Achaius, King of the
after having defeated
nemies in 987 AD. Here |
he made a vow to use St. An-
3 drew's cross as a. National]
SAE & a Emblem It seems that the
{night before “the battle when
PLYWOODS |the king prayed for victory,
the cross of St. Andrews ap-

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Radio when it word for Christ’ We use the SY Bs ell
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white arm aboye the red must
be placed next to the top of the
Dole. Remembering the origin

years these upsets about the 4, G. WILKIE Dey. MOR!
flag have been the agitation of North Bluff ‘ ‘ Wat
but a few White Rock

men,
1931 the Liberal member