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Canada - history of the flag (1873-1892) (402 words) |
 | B.C. initially used an unofficial symbol: the royal crest (a crowned lion standing on a crown) with the motto "splendor sine occasu." Sometimes this was flanked by laurel or laurel and oak, and sometimes the letters B and C were to the left and right. |
| The same source gives for the flag of Canada a 5-quartered great seal, surround by crown and laurels, on a Red Ensign. |
| The Prince Edward Island badge according to Admiralty and Colonial Office papers, was not approved for use on a flag until 1878. |
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Canada. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (4925 words) |
| Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. |
| Canada is a federation of 10 provinces—Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia—and three territories—Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon Territory. |
| During the Ice Age all of Canada was covered by a continental ice sheet that scoured and depressed the land surface, leaving a covering of glacial drift, depositional landforms, and innumerable lakes and rivers. |
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