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HI ALL

I am currently writing my masters thesis of canadian national identity as expressed through a history of canadian patriotic tatooing.
I have viewed the CKA gallery and am looking for individuals to please email me hi res pics of their canadian patriotic tatoos along with explanations about why they chose what design.

please email submissions to [email protected]
if you would like to participate.

some participants in this preliminary exercise will be contacted to participate in phase two research which will involve a photographic series of canadian patriotic tatoos
when i travel the country in the summer.

thanks in advance for the research help it is greatly appreciated

best and cheers to you all.

as an addendum i have also added a poll to gauge what national symbols we identitfy with most.

   

I voted the maple leaf. meet a girl with a tat of the canadian flag on her waist it was very sexy and tastefull.

   

Damn. A masters thesis where you get to meet and photograph tattooed babes. What the hell was I thinking when I went to law school?!?

Just for the record, I have the BC flag (just a plain flag, no embellishment whatsoever) on my right bicep... there are probably a number of us in the provincial category.

   

any reason you chose a provincial symbol over a national one? purely aesthetics or do you feel you have deeper connection to the provincal identity rather than a national one?

also anyone care to venture why so many of the tattoos seem to incorporate a beer motif??

anyway thanks for the replys so far keep the good information coming

   

I imagine you just happened to be thinking in general when it came to that particular fork in the road

   

A brite Red Maple Leaf will always stand for Canada

   

I once got to play with some guys from the 427 SOAS and one of them gave me a small gold Maple Leaf which I wore on my boonie cap all during my active duty period this year. Everyone who ever asked about it thought it was pretty cool even though it was against uniform regs.

   

I chose the maple leaf, as I have one tatooed on my leg. To me Canada has allways been first and foremost about the leaf. Growing up post 1967 the Maple Leaf is first thing I think of when I think Canada. Travellers to forgien lands from our country wear the maple leaf with pride and are identified as Canadians world wide from it.

I will be emailing you a pic of my leaf soon after posting this.


BTW you missed one of the most important national identity symbols we have, TIM HORTONS!!!! good luck with the thesis.

   

i voted for the maple leaf too but i dont have a tat of it..........yet.

i was deciding between that and the "other ethnic symbology" but the maple leaf won out cuz the other one isn't neccesarily canadian themed.....like if i were to get an ehnic tat it would be something dutch, nohting to do with canada.

   

It was so I could get into barroom brawls when in other provinces.

It's nothing against the maple leaf, I might get one of those as well some day, but home is where the heart is, and nowhere else in Canada (or the world) is quite like BC... most (if not all) provinces are kind of culturally unique, and the BC flag gave me a way to express my pride a little more specifically. Not just Canadian, but Pacific-coast Canadian.

I know that there are others here who are very proud of their provinces, who might feel the same.

   

like GFPB

   

Yes sir I am quite proud of my provincial identity aswell. Most of us from the great west of Canada are extremely proud of what we have managed to accomplish out here. Alberta is debt free, Sask and BC economys are on this rise, and through all the natural resourse development we have still managed to keep the West beautifull. (Unlike the nickel belt in Ontario which has seen it's landscape destroyed due to years of strip mining)


But as proud of my province as I am, I am still a proud Canadian first.

   

Well, yes, but he has separatist leanings, which is a whole different kettle of fish. I was thinking more of people who are content to have their province be part of Canada.

   

which is whato you get when you take provincial patriotism to the extreme.

   

Holy shit your a pretty judgemental guy arent you? Tell ya what, why don't you pull your head out of your ass for five minutes, the fresh air might just do your brain some good.

   

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