Flag of United Great Lakes

The flag of United Great Lakes , often referred to as the Great Lakes flag, is a national flag of United Great Lakes. The current Great Lakes flag became United Great Lakes' flag on 6 June 1924, when the new Seal of United Great Lakes was made.
The flag consisting of a red field with a vertical tricolor white square at its centre in the ratio of 5:3, in the middle of which is featured the seal of United Great Lakes in the center. The colors in the flag are red, white and blue. Red stands for blood for those who died in the nationalist revolutions. White stands for the freedom and purity. Blue in the seal represents the water of Great Lakes.
== History ==
In the history of Great Lakes flags, United Great Lakes have had five flags before it's present flag. When Great Lakes were under France, Great Lakes didn't have their own separate flag. When France lost Great Lakes to Great Britain, British Explorer George Hamilton designed a flag for British Great Lakes. It reminds the current flag without the seal and it has Great Britain Union flag in upper hoist side. When new the Union Jack flag was made, The flag of British Great Lakes were remade. It's a red field, Union Jack in the upper hoist side with two letters GL (Great Lakes) in the lower fly side.
=== Flags used in United Great Lakes ===
New France Flag.svg|Flag of New France 
Flag_of_the_United_Empire_Loyalists.svg| Great Britain Flag 
British Great Lakes Flag1.svg|British Great Lakes Flag 
British Great Lakes Flag2.svg|British Great Lakes Flag 
Old Flag of the United Great Lakes.png|United Great Lakes Flag 
Flag of the United Great Lakes.svg|Current flag 
== Legal definition ==
=== Size ===
Under Great Lakes law, the ratio of the flag is 5:3 (height:width).
=== Colors ===
Scheme 	Red 	White 	Blue 	Brown
HEX 	#CB1F2D 	#FFFFFF 	#0A366E 	#6D4F1B
RGB 	203, 31, 45 	255, 255, 255	10, 54, 110 	109, 79, 27
CMYK 	0, 95, 82, 0	0, 0, 0, 0 	100, 81, 34, 19	35, 59, 100, 44
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== National flag days ==
See also: Public holidays in United Great Lakes
Date 	English Name 	Notes
January 1 	New Year's Day 	
Moveable Sunday 	Easter Day 	First Sunday after the first full moon on or after March 21
April 22 	Earth Day 	
Moveable Sunday 	Pentecost 	50 days after Easter
Second Sunday of May 	Election Day to the Congress 	Elections held every four years
August 24 	Commonwealth of Official Nations Day	
Second Monday in October	Thanksgiving 	
October 24 	United Nations Day 	
November 28 	National Day 	
December 25 	Christmas Day 	
== State flags ==
Flag	Year	State 	Description
 	1982	Columbiana	A horizontal bicolour of blue and red with a letter C at the hoist side.
 	1921	Crawford 	A horizontal bicolour of green and white with a in the canton.
 	1895	Hadleigh 	A white banner with three red horizontal stripes in the fess.
 	1878	Huron 	A horizontal bicolour of white and blue with a red in the middle.
 	1895	Harrow 	A dark blue banner with an anchor in the middle.
 	1878	Michigan 	A blue–white–blue triband with a in the middle.
 	1898	Niagara 	A horizontal bicolour of green and blue divided by a white wave pattern.
 	1957	Superior 	A horizontal bicolour of orange and blue divided by a white stripe with the state seal based on the hoist-side.
 	1998	Wisconsin 	A green banner with a white-edged black diagonal band divided diagonally from the lower hoist-side corner.
 	1957	Yooper 	A vertical tricolor of blue, white and green with the state seal in the middle.
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