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image provided by Gaël Corbineau, 4 April 2018
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Adopted: October 1986
Designer: Lily Fortin
Proportions: 3:5
There are only about 3,200 French speaking people in this province. Their flag is based on the French tricolour and Acadian flag, with three unequal panels of blue, white, and red. Two yellow sails are set on the line between the white and red panels. The sail on top is charged with a spruce twig, while the bottom sail is charged with a pitcher flower. These emblems are outlined in black.
The sails represent early Basque, Breton and French fishermen that came to the area, and the explorer Jacques Cartier. At the same time, they are symbols of action and progress. The yellow is taken from the star of the Acadian flag.
The spruce twig is the emblem of Labrador and is also found on the Labrador flag. Newfoundland and Labrador's provincial flower is the insect eating pitcher plant. This was used on Newfoundland's coins from the time of Queen Victoria until 1938. It was adopted as the province's floral emblem in 1954.
The flag was adopted by the Fédération des Francophones de Terre-Neuve et
du Labrador to represent the Franco-Terreneuviens.
Sources:
The organization that owns this flag and copyright is
Fédération des francophones de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador,
Centre scolaire et communautaire des Grands-Vents,
65 chemin Ridge, suite 233,
Saint-Jean de Terre-Neuve (TNL) A1B 4P5
Gaël Corbineau, 4 April 2018
The organization that promotes the use of the flag is the Fédération des
francophones de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador (FFTNL).
The flag in actual use is
shown on several photos:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/FrancoTnl/photos/?ref=page_internal
On most
photos, the flag is used in events organized by the FFTNL.
The flag is also
used in more official contexts:
https://www.facebook.com/FrancoTnl/photos/a.10151452843024418.592572.315567394417/10156909702724418/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/FrancoTnl/photos/a.10151452843024418.592572.315567394417/10156909702714418/?type=3&theater
and also outdoors:
https://www.facebook.com/FrancoTnl/photos/a.10151452843024418.592572.315567394417/10156832252099418/?type=3&theater
Ivan Sache, 4 April 2018
Per bend sinister Azure and Gules, a pile reversed issuant from the dexter
flank and truncated in chief Argent, overall in sinister chief two billowing
sails in pale Or, the first charged with a black spruce twig Sable, the second
charged with a pitcher plant flower Sable voided Or
Pascal Vagnat, 1 August 2005, citing Public
Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada
