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House flags of Canadian Shipping Companies (page 1)

BC Ferries.
Canadian Maritime
Canadian National Steamships
Canadian Steamship Lines
Canadian Pacific Lines
Canadian Pacific Navigation Co.
Canadian Steamship Lines
Canadian-Australian Line, Ltd.

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BC Ferries

by Jorge Candeias

Canadian Maritime

by Jorge Candeias

Recently, in that newspaper suplpement I usually take my houseflag information from, a new logo appeared. It's the logo of a canadian shipping company, called Canada Maritime and, apparently, based in Montréal. They have a website at http://www.canmar.com/ that, despite being image-heavy, shows no flags. They do have pictures of some of their ships, though, with some flaggy things barely visible in low resolution.

Anyway, the logo is basically a drawing of a flying flag as seen in (a scan of the logo as appears in the newspaper - better images available on their site). Two designs are probable of the actual flag: a boring LOB bearing this logo on white, or simply this flag.
Jorge Candeias,

Canadian National Steamships

by Ivan Sache

# 370. Canadian National Steamships - Montreal

Burgee-shaped flag with Norwegian colours and design. In the middle of the cross is placed a yellow disc fimbriated in red and yellow.
Shipping lines: Montreal - Quebec - Halifax - British Guinea, Montreal - Vancouver - South America - Austral.(ia?)

Steam cargos: 39; Cargo and passsenger steamboats: 8
Tonnage: ca 248,180 Regt. brutto

Source: Znamierowski shows p. 244 a plate of houseflags of North and South American shipping companies, dated 1933. The original source is 'Lloyd Reederei-Flaggen der Welt-Handelsflotte' [Lloyd Houseflags of the World Merchant Fleet], Bremen (Germany). The caption of the original plate says 'Lloyd Zigaretten + Bildersammlung: Reedereiflaggen', so the 'book' is an album for cigarette cards.
Ivan Sache, 24 March 2001

Canadian Pacific Lines

by Al Fisher

Canadian Pacific is a Canadian company which owned ships, trains and planes.

Their former airline branch (Canadian Pacific Air or CP air) is the today CanadiXn Airlines (IATA code: CP )

X = a clever way to escape from the Canadian law that any name will appear in English and French. In order not to write both CanadiAn and CanadiEn on their planes , they put the company logo in the problematic font place.
Dov Gutterman - 27 January 1999

Stewart listed it as British . . . to make sure I checked to see if all Canadian companies were thus listed. All except CP were listed as Canadian!
Al Fisher - 27 January 1999

The following is the only citation I could find giving the ownership of the CP . . . taken from a U.S. Federal Government law suit, of all things!

8. 'Canadian Pacific Railway Company, a Canadian corporation, operating a regular line of steamships, hereafter called the 'Canadian Pacific Line,' from Montreal, Quebec, and St. John in the Dominion of Canada to Liverpool, England, and return. It also owns and operates a transcontinental railroad which, partly through branches running into the United States and partly though connections with the Wabash and other American railroads, [239 U.S. 466, 470] transports a substantial proportion (12 per cent) of its steamship passengers to and from points in this country.

So Stewart did err . . .
Al Fisher - 28 January 1999

In more recent years (late 1960's) Canadian Pacific was reorganized into CP Rail, CP Ships, CP Hotels, CP Air, and a trucking firm, I think Smith? All of these used a modern logo that looks sort of like a Pac Man symbol (if you remember the video game!) In the 1950s CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway) used a beaver over shield logo. I believe I remember this on a flag in pictures, and I definately saw the CP Rail logo on a flag. CP Air has been spun off, and the parent company is now calling itself Canadian Pacific again.
Kevin McNamara, 10 May 2000

Canadian Pacific Navigation Company

by Phil Nelson

This was a freight and passenger company operating in the British Columbia area between 1883 and 1901. The company was purchased by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
Phil Nelson, 29 April 2000

Canadian Steamship Lines

by Jorge Candeias

by Al Fisher

by Ivan Sache

#371. The Canada Steamship Lines - Montreal

Horizontally divided red-white-red with a vertical blue stripe in the middle.

Shipping lines: Deep Sea and St. Laurent river

Cargo and passenger steamboats: 102

Tonnage: ca 308,650 Regt. brutto

Canadian-Australian Line, Ltd.

by Al Fisher

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