Flag Protocol
The university flies four official flags on each campus—Canada, British Columbia, Okanagan Nation Alliance/Musqueam and UBC.
For the rules for flying the Canadian Flag, visit the Canadian Heritage site. The rules for flying other flags at UBC are based on this same etiquette.
Flags at UBC Okanagan may be lowered for the passing of a member of the campus community.
For more information, contact university.relations@ubc.ca.
Okanagan Nation Alliance and Musqueam Flags
Each campus of UBC sits on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of its host nation: the Syilx Okanagan Nation in the Okanagan, and Musqueam in Vancouver.
On Sept. 27, 2018, the Okanagan campus raised the Okanagan Nation Alliance flag for the first time on its permanent pole in the courtyard. And in Vancouver, the Musqueam flag was raised on its permanent pole on February 25, 2019.
The flags formally signify UBC’s recognition of Indigenous peoples in whose lands the university resides, and add to a growing visible Indigenous presence on both campuses that includes bilingual signs providing alternate street names in hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and nsyilxcn Indigenous languages.
Each campus has marked National Indigenous Peoples Day by temporarily raising the flag of its host First Nation in place of the university’s flag.
