Support for the new flag grew quickly, including in Quebec. As Matheson noted in his book "Canada's Flag" (1980), "when in June 1965, Dr. George F.G. Stanley of Royal Military College ... was granted an honorary doctorate at Université Laval, he was loudly applauded by the student body when the Canadian flag was referred to in his citation. The applause interrupted the citation." French-Canadian nationalists had long demanded that the Union Jack (Union Flag) be removed from any future Canadian flag.