BRITISH COLUMBIA FERRY SERVICES INC.

The first house flag, described as used from 9 June 1960, was green, apparently 1:2, with the provincial dogwood flower. Its centre should be yellow, not the green in an earlier FOTW rendering. The early funnel’s flagpole is upright and black-outlined in Loughran, angled in Brown; Rosanoski confirms the angle but not the pole colour. The base was light blue rather than Loughran’s ordinary blue, and the starboard emblem was mirrored. Queen of the Islands and Queen of Vancouver photographs support the version.

From spring 1986 the fleet adopted red, marine blue and white. A Queen of Sidney photograph documents the funnel. The company later described the dogwood as its symbol for 43 years, with the emblem unchanged for 25, before retiring the flag to the maritime museum in Victoria in 2003.

B157’s funnel is tentative, taken from a small 2000 website photograph. The blue band seems broader than the red and intervening white, possibly with a narrow black top. Another view suggests bands turning down at the forward edge. The associated earlier FOTW dogwood rendering had a green centre and was later replaced.

B863 follows the photographed dogwood version used for the B41 funnel. Rosanoski presumes its angled emblem arose from treating a level emblem on an angled background as the flag’s geometry.

The new wave flag was introduced in April 2003, dated 1 April in one contribution and 2 April in the company account. The white wave on Pantone 541 blue symbolises white ships on blue seas. The specification gives 914 × 1829 mm and construction to CAN/CGSB-98.1-92. Rosanoski initially believed the wave should begin at the lower hoist, but records that Zachary Harden’s 2011 photograph disproved this. Harden saw the centred wave almost reaching each corner, at 1:2 proportions, ashore at Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay and aboard the vessels. The source also describes horizontal waves on funnels; the earlier suggestion that this addressed seasickness was only speculation.