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The Royal Canadian Yacht Club claims to have been founded in 1852,
while the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron claims to be the oldest
yacht club in North America, having been established in 1837, though
it was then known as the Halifax Yacht Club.
David Prothero, 29 July 2006
Canadian clubs that had a plain Blue Ensign as their special ensign were:
Clubs with a defaced Blue Ensign were:
In 1937 the nine Canadian yacht clubs were authorised to fly the Canadian Blue
Ensign, and responsibility for Canadian special ensigns was transferred from the Admiralty
to the Canadian Department of National Defence. Use of the Canadian Blue Ensign ended
in 1965, but some yacht clubs continued to use their old special ensign, either the
Canadian Blue Ensign, or the pre-1937 Blue Ensign defaced with the club badge, as a club-house
land flag.
David Prothero, 13 March 2006
According to the Royal
Victoria Yacht Club the Blue Ensign they used for the was defaced with a crown above
the letters "VI" for Vancouver Island.
Dean McGee, 12 March 2006
[Canadian] burgees as depicted in The Dumpy book of ships and the sea
[sam57].
James Dignan, 12 February 2008
Blue with a red cross fimbriated white. in the canton (fimbriated as per the other
quadrants) the flag of Nova Scotia, but with a crown over the central shield
James Dignan, 12 February 2008
White with a blue diagonal from the honour point, in the centre of which is a crown.
It has a red border around all three edges.
James Dignan, 12 February 2008
The Flag Shop's site shows 13 yacht club officer's flag apparently intended
for a Canadian market. I'm not sure how commonly these are actually used, but do
note that the Flag Outlet site also shows most of the same flags. Anyway, the
flags are (alphabetically, presumably there is a more sensible order):
Commodore: White swallowtail with blue cross
Entertainment Chairman: White
swallowtail with blue rectangle
Fleet Captain: Swallowtail with white cross,
quarters alternating blue and red
Fleet Surgeon: White swallowtail with red
cross
Membership Chairman: Blue swallowtail with white saltire
Past
Commodore: Blue swallowtail with white rectangle
Purchasing Agent:
Swallowtail vertical tricolour red-white-blue
Rear Commodore: Red swallowtail
with white cross
Retired Commodore: White swallowtail with blue cross and
blue R in upper canton
Secretary: Yellow swallowtail with red cross
Staff
Captain: Swallowtail with white cross, quarters alternating yellow and blue
Treasurer: Red swallowtail with yellow cross
Vice-Commodore: Blue swallowtail
with white cross
Jonathan Dixon, 4 August 2011