The Labrador flag is being flown Tuesday at Confederation Building in St. John's.
How the Labrador flag came to be: An interview with the designer who helped create it 50 years ago | CBC News LoadedHow the Labrador flag came to be: An interview with the designer who helped create it 50 years agoThe Labrador flag is 50 years old, and its designer is happy it's still flyingThe Labrador flag turned 50 in July.
Q: What comes to mind for you when you think about the Labrador flag you designed turning 50 years old this weekend? I went home to Cartwright for the Christmas holidays and of course the flag came up so I toyed with various concepts. A couple of guys came in to see what I was doing, and they added their own suggestions, and after I had that basic design finished a couple of other people added. So I put the concepts together but I can't say I designed the flag. It was done by half a dozen people.
The black spruce is emblematic of all of Labrador because it grows all over the place. I thought I'll try to get something that's not going to be argued about. The black spruce was the best thing I could come up with. I drew in various things to represent the black spruce because it couldn't just have a skinny old tree up in the corner. I came with the twigs, the annual growth on the branch and they formed a three leaf cluster on every branch and more than one on every branch.
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