Actually, there are circumstances in which recollections of recollections might work for a doctoral thesis; but you're right, it's not usually seen as a reliable source of factual information, which is what I'm after.
I am also inclined to be skeptical about anyone--presumably, in this case, your sources--who describes lowering the Peace Tower flag for Remembrance Day to be a "relatively new" tradition compared to lowering it for death of the reigning UK Monarch or the sitting PM, given that the Peace Tower was opened in 1927. If the Peace Tower was opened less than eighty years ago, the tradition of flying its flag at half-mast on Remembrance Day can't exactly be "relatively new" compared to flying it at half-mast on other occasions.
Since the PMs who died in office (Sir John A. MacDonald and Sir John Thompson) did so before the construction of the Peace Tower was even started, it also leaves me skeptical of your sources. If the sitting PM died, I'd expect the flag would be lowered, but it seems to be stretching to call it a tradition when it's not happened yet.
Finally, George V didn't die until 1936, so saying that the tradition of lowering the Peace Tower flag for the death of the reigning UK Monarch is relatively new compared to the tradition of lowering it for Remembrance Day seems inaccurate.
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I am also inclined to be skeptical about anyone--presumably, in this case, your sources--who describes lowering the Peace Tower flag for Remembrance Day to be a "relatively new" tradition compared to lowering it for death of the reigning UK Monarch or the sitting PM, given that the Peace Tower was opened in 1927. If the Peace Tower was opened less than eighty years ago, the tradition of flying its flag at half-mast on Remembrance Day can't exactly be "relatively new" compared to flying it at half-mast on other occasions.
Since the PMs who died in office (Sir John A. MacDonald and Sir John Thompson) did so before the construction of the Peace Tower was even started, it also leaves me skeptical of your sources. If the sitting PM died, I'd expect the flag would be lowered, but it seems to be stretching to call it a tradition when it's not happened yet.
Finally, George V didn't die until 1936, so saying that the tradition of lowering the Peace Tower flag for the death of the reigning UK Monarch is relatively new compared to the tradition of lowering it for Remembrance Day seems inaccurate.