Flag of Acadia
The flag of Acadia (French: Drapeau de l'Acadie) represents the Acadian community of Canada. It was adopted on 15 August 1884, at the Second Acadian National Convention held in Miscouche, Prince Edward Island, by nearly 5,000 Acadian delegates from across the Maritimes. It was designed by Father Marcel-François Richard, a priest from Saint-Louis-de-Kent, New Brunswick. Richard’s flag was a French tricolour, with a gold star in papal colours added to the blue band, representing devotion to the Virgin Mary and serving as a distinctive emblem of Acadian identity. At the convention, Richard drew on military metaphors to argue that the Acadian movement required a visible emblem. He stated: “At the great 1881 convention held in Memramcook, we joined together in an orderly army set for battle, not to wage war on our brothers who share our religion, but to defend ourselves against any threat made to our nationhood,” concluding that such an army required “a national flag”. The flag was first raised...
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