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Forrest Pass

Forrest Pass is a historian, curator, and vexillologist based in Gatineau, Quebec. He works as a curator for Library and Archives Canada.

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Forrest Pass

Pole Position

Stephen Harper turns to vexillology May 2025
In 2015, I curated a small display at the Canadian Museum of History to mark the Canadian flag’s fiftieth birthday on February 15. It featured recently rediscovered cardboard maquettes from the final days of the parliamentary flag committee’s deliberations in 1964. Transferred to the Human History Division of the National Museum in 1966, these preliminary models resurfaced in storage only in early…

Ex Libris

From the shelves of Duncan Campbell Scott May 2024
I love combing used-book sales for unusual titles. A while back, while browsing tables in a downtown Ottawa elementary school gymnasium, I spotted a particularly intriguing one: Richard S. Lambert’s For the Time Is at Hand: An Account of the Prophesies of Henry Wentworth Monk of Ottawa, Friend of the Jews and Pioneer of World Peace