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• Patriotic Flag before 1837
• Rebellion of 1837-39 in Lower Canada (Québec)
• Patriotic Flags after 1839
• Proposals for a flag of Quebec in the 20th Century
• Political parties and movements from 1960 onwards :
  • Chevaliers de l'Indépendance (CDI)
  • Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ)
  • Mouvement National de Libération du Québec (MNLQ)
  • Mouvement Souveraineté Association (MSA)
  • Parti Quebecois (PQ)
  • Ralliement National pour l'Indépendance du Québec (RIN)

See also:

• Canada
• Quebec

Patriotic flag before 1837-39

by Luc-Vartan Baronian

by Luc-Vartan Baronian

Description
Proportions 1:2 and 2:3 are seen.
Horizontal green-white-red, sometimes seen with a yellow star, near the hoist in the green stripe.
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).
Use of the flag
The addition of the star seems to be of this century.
The original flag was used by the Parti Patriote, a mainly French-Canadian party, but that also had many Irish members and some English members. This flag was banned by the British authorities, after the 1837-1839 revolution in Lower Canada (actual Quebec).
In the '60s and '70s it was used by the FLQ. It even flew in Alger (Algeria!) where an FLQ branch was officially recognized and financed by the government.
Today it is seen in many nationalist manifestations and in commemorations of the Patriotes. A new party, the MNLQ (Mouvement National de Liberation du Quebec) founded by the ex-leader of the Algeria faction of the FLQ uses the starred version. (It is considered an extremist party).
NB : If you're ever in Montreal, visit the Musee du Chateau Ramezay ; you will see the Patriote flag of the St-Eustache battle (it has a fish, maple leaves, etc..).
Luc-Vartan Baronian - 14 March 1997

This flag (without star) was used during rebellion the 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.
Michel Simard - 30 September 1998

Patriotic Flags after 1839

Gifs 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.
Until the 1837-1839 rebellion, green-white-red horizontals were very popular in Lower Canada.
After the rebellion, the British banned the use of such flags, therefore French-Canadians star