Lieutenant-Colonel G.Y. Masson
11th (Ontario) Tank Regiment

If we did something as pro-British as possible, such as adopting the Union Jack as the flag of Canada, we would be doing a much greater service to the empire. I feel the cause [of adopting a new national flag] could well be postponed until happier years.

(Masson in Windsor Star, 31 Jan 1939, 11)

Born in Detroit on 11 December 1895, George Yule Masson was an architect in Windsor, Ontario and a First World War veteran. Commissioned a lieutenant in Canada, he reverted to the ranks to go overseas as a gunner in 1917, and ended the war a cadet with the Royal Air Force. Until summer 1939, he was commanding officer of the Essex Regiment which had been re-designated at tank battalion in 1936.

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