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In recent years, the "Pink, White and Green" flag has undergone a revival, and has become popular on T-shirts incorrectly referring to it as "the Republic of Newfoundland flag," despite the fact that the flag was never officially recognized as a national or provincial flag, and although Newfoundland was a British Dominion from September 26,1907 ...
The flag which has become known as the "Newfoundland Tricolour", the "Pink, White and Green" (sic) began as the unofficial flag of an aid and benefit organization, the Newfoundland Fishermen's Star of the Sea Association, which was established in St. John's in 1871 by the Catholic Church. The official banner of the association was a green ...
Flags of the Marshal Foch victory-harmony banner June 8, 1919. This is a collection of lists of flags, including the flags of states or territories, groups or movements and individual people. There are also lists of historical flags and military flag galleries. Many of the flag images are on Wikimedia Commons.
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Newfoundland and its neighbouring small islands (excluding French possessions) have an area of 111,390 km 2 (43,010 sq mi). [19] Newfoundland extends between latitudes 46°36′N and 51°38′N. [20] [21] Labrador is also roughly triangular in shape: the western part of its border with Quebec is the drainage divide of the Labrador Peninsula ...
These were defined by October 2010 as part of the Unicode 6.0 support for emoji, as an alternative to encoding separate characters for each country flag. Although they can be displayed as Roman letters, it is intended that implementations may choose to display them in other ways, such as by using national flags .
List of Canadian provincial and territorial symbols; List of Newfoundland and Labrador general elections; List of highest points of Canadian provinces and territories; List of ministries of transport by country; List of premiers of Newfoundland and Labrador; List of titles and honours of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Newfoundland and Labrador
Flag: Flag of Labrador: Flag of Newfoundland and Labrador.svg: 31 March 1974 [14] Predates the introduction of the current provincial flag by six years Anthem: Ode to Labrador: 1927 [13] Written by physician Harry Paddon in 1927 and set to the tune of O Tannenbaum: Bird: Grey jay: Flag of Newfoundland and Labrador.svg: No date [15]