Canadian City Flags - Softcover

The authors, all members of the North American Vexillological Association / Association nord-américaine de vexillologie, have experience in documenting and designing flags. Luc V. Baronian, Ph.D., was the 1998 recipient of the Captain William Driver Award for his paper American-influenced Flags in Lower Canada published in Raven: A Journal of Vexillology, vol. 7 (2000). He is assistant professor of Linguistics at Boston University and (on leave) at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Christopher Bedwell s vexillological focus is municipal, sub-national, and obsolete flags. Doreen Braverman, a former president of the Association, founded a Canadian flag retail and manufacturing chain, The Flag Shop, and was a founding member of the Canadian Flag Association. She edited the semi-annual newsletter, The Flag & Banner, 1987 2005, and the books Flags Tell the Story of Canada (1995) and Our Flag(2000). James A. Croft, former editor of NAVA News, founded the Institute of Civic Heraldry and was the 1981 recipient of the Driver Award for his paper South African Civic Flags . He is a co-author of American City Flags (2004). Scott D. Mainwaring, Ph.D., writes for the newsletter of the Portland Flag Association, and is a social scientist at Intel Corporation. John M. Purcell, Ph.D., is a member of the Raven editorial board and an honorary member and former president of the Association. He has published extensively in vexillological journals, including the Flag Bulletin and Raven. A Fellow of the Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques and the Association, he received the New Directions in Vexillology Award from the Canadian Flag Association. He is the principal author of American City Flags (2004), which received the Vexillon in 2005 for the most important contribution to vexillology in the preceding two years. He is professor emeritus in Spanish and Foreign Language Education at Cleveland State University. Rob Raeside, Ph.D., director of Flags of the World since 1998, is a Fellow of the Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques and a professor at Acadia University in Nova Scotia. Mark S. Ritzenhein is a vexillographer and has designed flags for over 25 years. His five articles here are his first and likely last scholarly contribution to vexillology. Alison Wilkes is a flag enthusiast and registered nurse in Toronto, Ontario.

This important book, a first in its field, showcases the civic flag parade that began in the early 20th century and accelerated when Canada adopted her distinctive national flag in 1965. Bravo . . . for documenting the beauty and wide acceptance of Canadian civic symbols! --Kevin Harrington --President, Canadian Flag Association