A Rare 1870 Fenian Raid Period Canadian Five Province Ensign Newly Listed illustrating the NSKK eagle insignia

illustrating the NSKK eagle insignia at the top

3rd Battalion at Rouyn on May 3

Triangular shaped cloth insignia

constructed of gilded metal ring (with textbook die flaw in "9")

Believing that the emperor must possess enough land to maintain the Empire's integrity

A Rare 1870 Fenian Raid Period Canadian Five Province Ensign Newly Listed illustrating the NSKK eagle insigniaScreen printed in red, green, yellow, navy blue and black inks on white cotton, illustrating a Union Jack on the canton (upper left), along with the Canadian coat of arms used between 1870 and 1873 on the field at the far right, the coat of arms bearing the provincial arms of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Manitoba, inside an open ended wreath composed of a branch of maple leaves at the left and a branch of oak leaves at the right,