In February, Debbie Hartlen could sell a Canadian flag at her Dartmouth workshop, a new Scotland. Now the daily sale has reached approximately 300 flags, which does not have a larger internet job.
President Trump’s plan to impose a crippled tariff on Canadian exports is considered a devastating threat to many Canadian companies and workers. His trade warning – combined with repeated calls to annex the United States to Canada – he has flag manufacturers in the country to hold on to the sudden increase in demand.
“Isn’t she wonderful?” said Mrs. Hartlen, who owns the Nova Scotland flag trade. “Thanks, Trump. Who would have thought we would say that? “
Renewed interest in the Canadian flag of Maple Leaf, encouraged by the intense opposition to Mr. Trump’s idea of becoming Canada 51. The state and his economic threats comes because the Red and white Canadian banner indicates his 60th anniversary.
And for a nation where the flag waving is less part of life than in the United States, and the flags are generally less visible, and Trump’s revival of Canadian patriotism has also revived the image of the Canadian flag.
The flag of Maple Leaf, which often flies upside down or from hockey rods, has become the most important symbol used by protesters who have occupied and paralyzed Ottawa, the capital of Canada, almost a month in 2022. In response to restrictions in Kovida.
As a result, many Canadians have distracted from the presentation of their national flag from concern that they will be considered supporting protests.
But things began to change as the flag day in Canada, celebrated on February 15, was approaching. Usually the day passes mostly unnoticed. This time, on the background of tariff threats and criticisms of Mr. Trump to Canada, including referring to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as governor Trudeau, five former Prime Minister invited Canadian “Show a flag like never before.”
The government held a 6th birthday celebrations, including skaters who held a giant flag down the 19th century channel in Ottawa, which doubles as a giant skating rink during the winter. And throughout the country, Canadians do something that many rarely do: flying flags outside their homes.
L’étendard Flags and Banners, a company based in Quebec City, accounts for about 25,000 Canadian flags for federal government and 10,000 more for other customers and uses what is usually a winter season for the construction of stocks that brought Canada Day 1.
This year’s demand for flags is so high that the company may need to hire additional workers to cope with the rise, said Mario Trahan, one of the company owners.
“There is a peak just before July 1, but it’s always the same pattern every year,” said Mr. Trahan, whose company has been in the flag business for 30 years. “But we didn’t see a hurry like this.”
Before the current version of the flag was adopted, Canada spent almost a century trying to create and agree on a national flag that was not simply transmitted from its past as a British colony.
“The English Canadians were particularly divided in terms of their identity,” said Forrest Pass, vexilologist or scientist for the flag, in the library and archives of Canada, the National Archives. “British imperial identity was still great.”
The result, he said, was that Canada was first used by British Union Jack, which is officially known as Royal Union flag, as its national flag. 1892. British admiralty officially allowed Canadian commercial ships to fly a red flag that was known as the Canadian Red Flag, with Union Jack in one corner and a smaller shield of Canada Many design changes.
Soon the Canadian Red Flag used on land, especially the army during the First World War, before gaining official status in 1946.
Many Canadians believed that the Red Paper was mostly “the bearer of the place,” said Dr. Pass, whose dissertation was on the flags.
Different committees at different times considered thousands of proposed Canadian flags, including one, said Dr. Pass, in which she was a woman in a bikini.
“It was something from the weekend industry, the production of new flag design,” he said.
But it was Lester B. Pearson, Nobel Prizeman Mira for his work, who solved Suez’s crisis and passed the Liberal Prime Minister, who eventually chose the design of an individual maple leaf.
But at first it was difficult to sell. AND discussion in parliament to adopt it He described one historian as “among the ugliest in the history of the House of Community” because of the strong opposition of members of Parliament to the dilution of British heritage.
But after the debate was resolved and the design approved, the Canadians quickly warmed up to their new flag, said Dr. Pass.
During the Vietnam war, an anecdothy stories of American travelers sewing patches from maple leaves on their backpacks before they started abroad became the source of cross -border resentment, especially given the strong opposition of Canada’s war.
But protests in Ottawa, who became known as a truck convoy – and that the polls proved to be most of the Canadians who strongly opposed – they hurt the country’s romance with their flag.
“Koo-Option of the flag with a small population segment has created a great discomfort for Canadians,” said Heather Nicol, director of Canadian studies at Trent University at Peterborough, Ontario. “Many people felt:” Well, I don’t know if we want to look at that flag or fly that flag. “
However, in one neighborhood in the Ottawa Center, which endured the splitting of the ear, the late Night Air Horn protested by protesting truckers, Hudson Sam never took off four Canadian flags that mostly covered the tailor window that opened 15 years ago after emigrating from Jordan. (There is also a Scottish flag on the window in honor of his first customer.)
“I kept them because they are a symbol of our country,” Mr. Hudson said. “It’s not a symbol for certain people. I respect this flag. It is a symbol for 40 million people living in this country.”
Now with Mr. Trump’s denying in Canada, Mr. Hudson said he wanted more Canadians to follow his example and start showing the flag.
“Everywhere, anytime, all year long,” Mr. Hudson said before he scored his pants. “This is our ID”
