History of the Union Jack and Flags of the Empire

Their Origin, Proportions and Meanings as tracing the Constitutional Development of the British Realm, and with References to other National Ensigns
BY BARLOW CUMBERLAND, M.A.
Past President of the National Club, and of the Sons of England, Toronto; President of the Ontario Historical Society, Canada
With Illustrations and Nine Coloured Plates
THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND EXTENDED, WITH INDEX
TORONTO WILLIAM BRIGGS Booksellers' Row, Richmond Street West 1909 Copyright, Canada, 1909, by BARLOW CUMBERLAND.
TO THE FLAG ITSELF THIS STORY OF THE
Union Jack
IS DEDICATED WITH MUCH RESPECT BY ONE OF ITS SONS.

PLATE I.
This history of the Union Jack grew out of a paper principally intended to inform my boys of how the Union Jack of our Empire grew into its present form, and how the colours and groupings of its parts are connected with our government and history, so that through this knowledge the flag itself might speak to them in a way it had not done before.