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No flagchat thread is complete without the (unofficial) flag of Newfoundland: Newfoundland, and that chunk of Labrador on the coast, weren't part of Canada, but were a separate colony, and became a British dominion in 1907. Then a series of whoopsies in the 1930s led to a revocation of its right to self-governance, culminating in a referendum leading to confederation with Canada in 1949.  Flag prior to confederation:  Okay, pretty standard Brit imperial flag. But when they joined Canada they decided to just go with the UK's Union Jack as their provincial flag, which was apparently an issue of ongoing annoyance and confusion. This was resolved in 1980 when they got this monstrosity, apparently a "deconstructed" Union Jack:  I grant conceptually it's kind of cool and geometric, but looks terribly unwieldy on a flag. The "pink white and green" has a long story and a lot of pseudohistorical myth behind it, but in the current day mostly boils down to a "Newfoundland rules, gently caress Canada" sentiment.  Labrador, the isolated and underpopulated mainland chunk (as in 30,000 people in an area the size of Italy or Arizona), worked up its own awesome flag in 1973:  It's an exciting world of alternative flags of no actual legal validity but popular for t-shirts, bumper-stickers, and graffiti.  
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