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TARTANS OF CANADA
Apart from natural features in the landscape and native flora and fauna, many regional tartans take their colors from tributes to province or territory flags and coats of arms.
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Click on any region - then click again for more tartan details.
For a quick look, scroll down to see the tartans in order of adoption into the Confederation.
Click the Maple Leaf tartan for more about the official tartan of Canada!
CANADIAN TARTANS
Click on any tartan for more tartan details - tartan origins, adoption dates and design inspirations, including regional flags and coats of arms!
Newfoundland and Labrador
March 31, 1949
Quaerite Prime Regnum Dei "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God"
Nunavut
April 1, 1999
Nunavut Sanginivut (in Inuktitut) "Nunavut, our strength"
Yukon
June 13, 1898
Canada
July 1, 1867
A Mari usque ad Mare ""From Sea to Sea' and 'D'un océan à l'autre'"
Cape Breton Island
July 1, 1867
New Brunswick
July 1, 1867
Spem Reduxit "Hope was restored"
Nova Scotia
July 1, 1867
Munit Haec et Altera Vincit "One defends and the other conquers"
Ontario
July 1, 1867
Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet "Loyal she began, loyal she remains"
Prince Edward Island
July 1, 1873
Parva Sub Ingenti "The small under the protection of the great"
Quebec
July 1, 1867
Je me souviens "I remember"
Manitoba
July 15, 1870
Gloriosus et Liber "Glorious and free"
Northwest Territories
July 15, 1870
British Columbia
July 20, 1871
Splendor Sine Occasu "Splendour without diminishment"
Alberta
September 1, 1905
Fortis et Liber "Strong and free"
Saskatchewan
September 1, 1905
Multibus E Gentibus Vires "From many peoples strength"
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