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Description<-BR>
Proportions 1:2 and 2:3 are seen.
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Horizontal green-white-red, sometimes seen with a yellow star, near the hoist
in the green stripe.
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The green represents the Irish in the ranks of the Patriotes. The flag in
its whole is a revolutionary flag (it was adopted in the early 1800s). This flag (without star) was used during the Rebellion led by Louis-Joseph Papineau in 1837-1838 to establish a republic in the by-then Lower Canada, which corresponds to
the Province of Quebec now.
Images by Jaume Olle from the article "Flags of Quebec" by François
Beaudoin, FLAG BULLETIN, Vol. XXIII, No. 5 / 107, September-October 1984,
pgs. 149-163.
These flags are based on the French tricolore.
<-BR>Until the 1837-1839 rebellion, green-white-red horizontals were very popular
in Lower Canada.
<-BR>After the rebellion, the British banned the use of such flags, therefore
French-Canadians started looking for new identifying flags. Variations on
the French tricolore became the most popular choice in the second half of
the XIXth century in what was now known as Quebec (since 1867). These flags
had the advantage of being tolerated by the British authorities because of
the alliance between France and the UK in the Crimean war against Russia
from 1853 to 1871.
Use of the flag
Luc-Vartan Baronian - 14 March 1997
Michel Simard - 30 September 1998
Patriotic Flags after 1839
Here are different variations with traditional French-Canadian symbols : maple
leaves, beavers, the sacred heart.