Hello and welcome to Champion of Hyrule's flag ranking today I'm going to be ranking all of the flags designs in Canada from worst to best. Maybe an American one will follow soon but there are so many and so many of them are utter dog**** so I would absolutely dread that
British Columbia
Do I even need to say anything? Look it at it's awful the stretched out Bri'ish flag that shoves a knife into your eyes is worse enough but they also just had to add an MS Paint sun too. It's literally so embarassing I don't even think I need to explain how awful this is. BC was the province I was born in and this flag destroys any pride for that I have.
Prince Edward Island
Right off the bat you'll probably notice the hyper extended lion and yeah that's bad but I think the random red rectangles littered through out the edge is even worse and the trees are way too complicated. But hey at least it's at least pretty impressive how they managed to get an exact perfect replica of what PEI looks like and how big it is with that island!
New Brunswick
what the hell even is this? Okay the boat is fine I guess but why is the sail so white when the colour is taken out of the rest of the boat? And the sea... even for seas on flags this looks embarassing especially with the more realistic boat on it. And the stupid lion is back too. Now with a tongue knife. You know what at least it's interesting and fun to make fun of unlike some bad american state flags
Newfoundland and Labrador
Yeah no, I see what they were going for as in kind of a "deliberately bad but iconic" thing like the Maryland flag but it just does not work, the shapes they smashed together do not work at all if there was more space covered up by the red maybe it would be better (maybe even good!) but there's just a lot of empty white space on the right which does not look good at all.
Ontario
I really hate the "bri'ish flag in top left corner" flag trope so points taken away from Ontario for that but it at least makes more sense here than some other ones. It's
fiiiiiiine and the design looks alright but it just isn't that good at representing the province. Too British especially given this flag was made in 1965 like what?
Manitoba
This just barely beats Ontario by a technicality, I was tempted to put it lower than Ontario because Ontario being Bri'ish makes more sense but bison are cool so I put it higher.
Alberta
Another one that
looks fine but the design doesn't hold up that much when scrutinized. Come on Alberta your thing is oil not wheat that's Saskatchewan's thing. The mountains and marsh thing look off and ew bri'ish but the composition is pretty nice so that kinda salvages it.
Saskatchewan
Decent. I didn't expect anything good from Saskatchewan whatsoever but the flag is alright. They don't sell themselves too highly but not completely bad either. They know exactly what they're known for. Well except for spineless lion, him being here somehow makes less sense than before and definitely brings the design down a bit but at least it's kind of hidden. Sorta. Just don't stare at the flag too long because if you stand still for 20 seconds in Saskatchewan no matter where you are you will be hit by a drunk driver.
Nunavut
I really like the
idea of this design and I think it's actually super cool but the thickness of the lines on the center's inukshuk (I looked it up that's what it's called) and unevenness of the rocks don't make the design very compelling and really distract from it's better elements unfortunately.
Northwest Territories
I like the "three stripes and a design" thing on flags and this does it well and it pleasant to look at but the intricacies of the design absolutely aren't on closer inspection. Definitely a theme for this post.
Yukon
Like Northwest Territories's flag but the design in the center is much better to look at. The blue and green don't make for a very good contrast so I was tempted to put it lower but the dog's facial expression made me reconsider
Nova Scotia
I like it. It's fairly iconic and the fact that it's an inverted Scottish flag with a symbol of England on it is kinda funny. Could be less Br*tish but like what distinct nova scotia identity even is there that they can put on a flag?
Quebec
Qu*bec
.... okay but at least they know how to make a good flag. I think it could be better and repeating the same symbol three times is a little much but it is at least really distinct and the design is nice to look at. I mean maybe it being distinct from the rest of canada is kinda a bad thing because you know quebec seperatism bad but like at least it's a good design.
Canada
I don't know what's to be said it's a pretty great design! It's honestly just a perfect mix of simplicity and the leaf is really recognizable but not too complicated. Great flag, definitely better than any province's
there's also the old canada flag which i will not cover because it's literally just the same thing as ontario and manitoba's. There's also individual flags for francophone communities of each of the provinces but it would get so boring if I did all those and they're awful
and also the name change makes weird bigoted nerds mad for some ungodly reason so I can't hate that decision to much