Flag of Ukraine bands of blue and yellow colour."" (). In addition to the normal horizontal format, many public buildings, such as Verkhovna rada in Ukraine use vertical flags. Most town halls fly their town flag together with the national flag in this way; some town flags in Ukraine exist only in vertical form. The proportions of these vertical flags are not specified. When hung like a banner or draped, the blue band should be on the left, as illustrated. When flown from a vertical flagpole, the blue band must face the mast. The flag did not appear on Ukrainian official postal stamp
Flag of Canada when he reached Newfoundland in 1497. In 1534, Jacques Cartier planted a cross in Gaspé bearing the French royal coat of arms with the fleurs-de-lis. His ship flew a red flag with a white cross, the French naval flag at the time. New France continued to fly the evolving French military flags of that period. As the "de jure" national flag of the United Kingdom, the Union Flag (commonly known as the "Union Jack" and, by law, called the "Royal Union Flag" in Canada since 1964) was used similarly in Canada since the 1621 British settlement in Nova Scotia. Its