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LGBT Flags (Canada)

Canadian Pride Flag
Canadian Bear Pride
Canadian Transgender Flag
Gay and Lesbians of Vancouver Island
Quebec gay pride flag
Parks Canada pride flag
Pride flag in Calgary
Queer Muslim Community

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Canadian Pride Flag

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, and Martin Grieve 27 July 2007

At the official site of the Montreal Divers/cité Festival, you will see that the flag flown by Madame Simone (the representative of the Montreal Divers/cité parade to the Toronto Gay pride) appears to be one, you will notice the white square with bit of the red maple leaf showing.
Marc Pasquin, 26 October 2004

image by Pete Loeser, 26 May 2015

This version reverses the order of the green and blue stripes and uses a different ratio.

Canadian Bear Pride

image by Marcus Schmöger

These are three variants of "Canadian bear pride flags", i.e. flags where the Maple Leaf of the Canadian flag is replaced by a bear footprint.
Marcus Schmöger, 24 August 2001

The Canadian bear pride flag variants shown above seem to have only been used online, because only their images, no photos, could be found on the Web so far. However, there is a variant whose use in real life can be documented, although incompletely:

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 18 September 2011

The only variant of the Canadian bear pride flag which seems to have been used in real life so far is the one which was used in early 2000's in Calgary. It was charged with an upright bear footprint, all in red. The flag was introduced by the Bearback Calgary club in early 2000: its earliest photos date from the Spring Thaw 2000, an event which took place on 2000-05-06 [1]. It was also used at the Calgary Pride Parade 2000 [2], which took place on 2000-06-11 [3], as well as at the street fair which was held after its ending [4]. The flag was also brought to the Vancouver Pride Parade 2000, which took place on 2000-08-06 [5]. Although the flag must have been used on later occasions as well, it is currently impossible to document that, because there are no captured photos at the Internet Archive. The website was closed down by the beginning of 2005, so the later history of the flag, as well as that of the club which had introduced it, is yet to discover.

Sources:
[1] Bearback Calgary website at the Internet Archive - Spring Thaw 2000: http://www.bearbackcalgary.com/Gallery/2000/Spring-Thaw-2000/Spring-Thaw-2000.htm
(All images are available, even though the thumbnails are not captured.)
[2] Bearback Calgary website at the Internet Archive - Calgary Pride Parade 2000: http://www.bearbackcalgary.com/Gallery/2000/Pride2000/Parade-2000-Main.htm
(All images are available, even though the thumbnails are not captured.)
[3] Bearback Calgary website at the Internet Archive - Calgary Pride Parade 2000 - arrival at the parade: http://www.bearbackcalgary.com/Gallery/2000/Pride2000/Arrival-Main.htm
(All images are available, even though the thumbnails are not captured.)
[4] Bearback Calgary website at the Internet Archive - street fair at Calgary Pride 2000: http://www.bearbackcalgary.com/Gallery/2000/Pride2000/Street-Fair-Main.htm
(All images are available, even though the thumbnails are not captured.)
[5] Bearback Calgary website at the Internet Archive - Vancouver Pride 2000: http://www.bearbackcalgary.com/Gallery/2000/Vancouver-Pride/Van-Pride-2000.htm
(Image 1: http://www.bearbackcalgary.com/Gallery/2000/Vancouver-Pride/Van-Pride-2000-1.htm)
(Image 2: http://www.bearbackcalgary.com/Gallery/2000/Vancouver-Pride/Van-Pride-2000-3.htm)

If anybody has any information about the later use of this flag, as well as about its creation, I invite them to let us all know.
Tomislav Todorovic, 18 September 2011

Canadian Transgender Flag

image by Susan Braverman, 26 May 2015

The Canadian Transgender Flag which represents the unlimited horizons the Trans Community has in this world. The flag was raised in Ottawa in 2013 in celebration of the passing into law of Bill C-279 – and has been the subject of ongoing media coverage. It is regularly used in marches across Canada; all of which contributes to the raising of societal awareness across our great country.
Susan Braverman, 26 May 2015

Gays & Lesbians of Vancouver Island

On a dark blue background is a pink triangle with a green map of Vancouver Island.
Source: Mason Kaye

Quebec gay pride flag

image by Marc Pasquin, 19 September 2011

A Quebec gay pride flag can be seen at (image halfway down): http://docandraider.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html. It uses the design of the provincial flag, but with a vertical rainbow instead of blue.
Marc Pasquin, 19 September 2011

Parks Canada pride flag

image by Rob Raeside, 8 August 2019

Based on a photo of a Parks Canada pride flag at Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site.
Dave Fowler, 7 August 2019

Pride flag in Calgary

image located by Peter Edwards, 27 August 2018

"To kick off Pride Week, Calgary’s Hillhurst United Church unfurled a new Pride flag on Sunday that adds new shapes and colours to the iconic Rainbow Flag to represent other marginalized groups. The flag still contains the six rainbow colour stripes, but also includes five half-sized stripes shaped like an arrow. The light blue, light pink and white half-sized stripes represent members of the transgender community, while those that are brown and black represent people of colour and Indigenous peoples. The Calgary church plans to have it fly year round."
With a report from CTV Calgary’s Stephanie Wiebe. http://CTVNews.ca
Staff. Published Monday, August 27, 2018
Source: video https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/calgary-church-unveils-new-pride-flag-to-raise-awareness-about-other-marginalized-groups-1.4069310
Peter Edwards, 27 August 2018

Queer Muslim Community

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 13 May 2008

At http://www.torontopride.com/gallery/Image-Gallery-2004/parade/069FR.jpg is clearly a variation on the "Arab revolt" inspired flags of various mid-eastern country. it is the rainbow flag with a large pink triangle at the hoist pointing toward the fly. Inside are a white crescent and maple leaf (where the usual star would be) marking it for Canadian usage.
Marc Pasquin, 26 October 2004