home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky can.general:5284 rec.sport.baseball:32383 soc.culture.canada:8311
- Newsgroups: can.general,rec.sport.baseball,soc.culture.canada
- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!sobeco!philmtl!ray
- From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn)
- Subject: Re: The Upside-Down Canadian Flag
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.013020.19947@philmtl.philips.ca>
- Organization: Not Philips.
- References: <1992Oct22.195517.10322@netcom.com> <1992Oct29.181751.2304@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> <1992Nov4.135219.19103@elegant.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:30:20 GMT
- Lines: 15
-
- In refd article, rstory@elegant.com (Robert Story) writes:
- >In article <1992Oct29.181751.2304@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
- >> The white parts that border the bars aren't equal width. You fly the flag
- >> such that the wide white bordering the diagonal that points to the top of the
- >> flagpole is on the flagpole side of the bar.... (rather difficult to explain
- >> in English).
- >
- >I always remember it as "white to the hoist".
-
- The "white" is the white of the St. Andrew's cross. I always remember it
- as "Scottish Supremacy".
-
- --
- Ray Dunn at home | Beaconsfield, Quebec | Phone: (514) 630 3749
- ray@philmtl.philips.ca | dunn@cam.org | uunet!sobeco!philmtl!ray
-