The PM of the time unveiled his candidate for the new flag at a gathering of veterans in Winnipeg. He was heckled for the duration of his speech. It was the three Maple Leaves with a blue stripe on each end of the flag.
The flag shown on ebay certainly has the 3 components that most felt were important at the time: maple leaves, the Union Jack, and the Fluer-de-lis. Seems to me the government of the time (Liberal) wanted to get away from having the union jack as part of the flag.
The flag shown on ebay seems to be attracting a lot of interest and is a neat piece of Canadiana. If it was one of the proposed replacements, it is interesting that someone went to all the trouble of making it up, and on the old cloth material at that, vice today's nylon.
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