What is the Newfoundland and Labrador Tartan?
The Tartan, a plaid-type fabric, was developed by the late Sam Wilansky in 1955, who owned a clothing store on Water Street. Registered in 1973, its colours are gold, white, brown and red on a green background. The gold represents the sun’s rays in the Ode to Newfoundland; the green represents the pine clad hills; the white represents the cloak of snow; the brown represents the Iron Isle, a reference to Bell Island where iron was mined between the 1890s and 1960s; and the red represent the Royal Standard for which our fathers stood.
