Flag of Nova Scotia

The flag of Nova Scotia is a province of the coat of arms, modeled banner. The coat of arms shows a blue St. Andrew's cross (English saltire ) on a white background, which is the flag of Scotland with colors reversed. The parent of the cross, the emblem of Scotland, one of a red lily double bar surrounded red lion on a gold field.

Exactly when the flag was hoisted for the first time, can no longer be determined. This could be already been the case in 1625, I founded four years earlier colony of Nova Scotia granted when King Charles the coat of arms. The right to bear a coat of arms, the law was also obliged to make on the basis of this coat of arms is a banner. The first recorded use of the flag dates from the year 1858. However, the coat of arms on which the current flag is based was, in the meantime forget, was replaced by a different symbol, and in 1929 officially introduced again. During this time, was a Red Ensign with the coat of arms subsequently detached in use.