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| Anthony Drake, designer of the Saskatchewan flag, prepares to raise the flag at the Moose Jaw police station on May 13, 2016 as Mayor Deb Higgins and Warren Michelson, MLA for Moose Jaw North, stand by to watch. Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald |
By Lisa Goudy
It’s been 47
years since Anthony Drake’s design for the Saskatchewan flag won a provincial
contest and now finally he’s receiving recognition.
“Since it was
won and raised, it’s not been mentioned anywhere. Nobody ever said anything. I
had the flags in the house and I’d tell people,” said Drake, 75, from England.
“It hadn’t had any great impact on me personally other than the fact I was so
thrilled I’d won it in the first place, but I’ve been living with that splendid
achievement the rest of my life.”
Also in that
time, he’d never seen the flag he designed raised in Saskatchewan. But that has
all changed now as he is currently visiting Saskatchewan on a three-week tour.
He first raised the flag with cadets in Swift Current on Wednesday and then
again on Friday at the Moose Jaw police station.
“It’s my
treat,” said Drake, moments before raising the flag in Moose Jaw. “It’s
something that’s going to be one of the major events in my life. It really is.”
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