File:Flag of the United Empire Loyalists.svg
Summary
This is the Flag of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalists" class="extiw" title="en:United Empire Loyalists">en:United Empire Loyalists</a> (UEL); it's based off of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg" title="File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg">1801 Union flag</a>. This is not a duplicate or copy of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_flag_1606_(Kings_Colors).svg" title="File:Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg">Image:Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg</a> due to the fact that the uEL uses the 1606 Union flag to symbolise fact this was the flag they used when they left the 13 colonies for what became Canada in 1776. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ptbo.igs.net/~davidkemlo/kawarthabrue/trivia.htm">[1]</a> In uploading the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_GB_UEL.png" title="File:Flag of GB UEL.png">PNG version</a> of this flag, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:QuartierLatin1968" title="User:QuartierLatin1968">User:QuartierLatin1968</a> writes:
Strictly speaking, this image is not redundant to Image:Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg, because it is in the proportions 1:2 rather than 2:3. The proportions 1:2 would be anachronistic for the 18th century, but they're the ones widely in use today in Loyalist towns in Canada, such as Picton or Adolphustown.
The colors are from the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uelac.org/images/header.gif">web banner</a> hosted by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uelac.org/index.php">United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada</a>
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| current | 11:17, 3 January 2017 | | 1,200 × 600 (411 bytes) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | This is the Flag of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalists" class="extiw" title="en:United Empire Loyalists">en:United Empire Loyalists</a> (UEL); it's based off of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg" title="File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg">1801 Union flag</a>. This is <b>not</b> a duplicate or copy of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_flag_1606_(Kings_Colors).svg" title="File:Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg">Image:Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg</a> due to the fact that the uEL uses the 1606 Union flag to symbolise fact this was the flag they used when they left the 13 colonies for what became Canada in 1776. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ptbo.igs.net/~davidkemlo/kawarthabrue/trivia.htm">[1]</a> In uploading the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_GB_UEL.png" title="File:Flag of GB UEL.png">PNG version</a> of this flag, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:QuartierLatin1968" title="User:QuartierLatin1968">User:QuartierLatin1968</a> writes: <p><i>Strictly speaking, this image is not redundant to Image:Union flag 1606 (Kings Colors).svg, because it is in the proportions 1:2 rather than 2:3. The proportions 1:2 would be anachronistic for the 18th century, but they're the ones widely in use today in Loyalist towns in Canada, such as Picton or Adolphustown.</i> </p> The colors are from the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uelac.org/images/header.gif">web banner</a> hosted by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uelac.org/index.php">United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada</a> |
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