Ontario (unofficial), 1962-1965 When the Garden of the Provinces in Ottawa was opened in 1962, a set of unofficial flags were made to represent the country's provinces and territories. Each flag had a provincial shield on a plain coloured background. The colours were arbitrary. Some were white, some red, some blue; PEI's was green and Ontario's was yellow. The flags soon spread beyond the garden and effectively became unofficial provincial flags. Already in 1962 there were four provinces with flags of their own. By the end of the decade every province had one. But despite provincial reservations, the federal government continued flying the plain coloured flags until the mid 1970s. When Alberta finally adopted its flag in 1968 it just went with the plain blue flag from Ottawa, making it the last survivor of a weird and somewhat unloved group of Canadian flag designs.
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