Figure 1.-- Here we a Toronto Cub pack in the early 1940s. Notice that they were using the British Union Jack.

The Canadian General Council at the beginning of the decade continued officialy as a branch of the British Boy Scout Association. When the Boy Scouts were founded in England, there was no real thought given to an international movement (1900s). And Canada at the time was a Dominion, not a fully independent country. Thus the idea of a separate Canadian Scouting movement independent of of the British Scouting movement only developed over time. We still see the British flag at some Scout activities rather than the Canadian Dominion flag (red with the Union Jack in the upper left quanrant) during the early 1940s. We are unsure just how common this was. We do not know, for example, what flag French-speaking troops in Quebec used. Canadian Scouts finally became an independent member of the Boy Scout World Conference (now the World Organization of the Scout Movement) after the War (1946). A subsequent amendment to the Act of Parliament changed the name to Boy Scouts of Canada.