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Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

by António Martins

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Cape Breton Island

Cape Breton Island is part of Nova Scotia, but retains a very strong sense of regional identity, with Scottish and French influences much more obvious in its culture than on mainland Nova Scotia. There has been an unofficial flag of CBI for many years, and when I went to try to buy one on my last visit there, I discovered that it no longer exists, and that this new official flag is there. The new flag is white (I'll let you decide if it's a bedsheet or not!) with four coloured bars across the bottom in blue over green over yellow over grey. These bars are separated by a narrow black fimbriation. The green bar rises up in the fly to silhouette a hill. Toward the hoist is a stylized green bald-headed eagle in flight. The four bars represent the usual things - blue for sea; green for green hills; I forget what yellow is but it is something to do with the people; grey for the coal that is mined there. Ratio: 1:2.

The old flag used in CBI was generally forest green (although one manufacturer insists she made in dark blue), with a yellow (or white) circle in the centre, carrying an outline map of CBI coloured in CBI tartan (green, yellow, black and white). I was hoping that I would get to post the first flag