From the May 28, 2012, CBC News.
The flag was carried by the 104th Regiment of Foot from Frederickton and Kingston, Ontario, and will be exhibited at the New Brunswick Museum. The regiment was composed of men from the maritime provinces and from what then was Upper Canada and Lower Canada (Ontario and Quebec).
Gary Hughes, museum curator, said, "It's kind of almost like a Canadian regiment before there was a Canada."
The group is in the history books for its epic 1,100 kilometer march during the winter of 1813 to help defend Canada from an American invasion. They were on the move for 52 days from February to April, using snowshoes and toboggans with temperatures below 27 degrees C. Eight hundred men completed it through waist-high snow.
The flag is a 6 by 6 foot silk banner and being refurbished in Halifax thanks to the gift of an unknown donor.
Save the Flag. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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