The eleven points on the maple leaf of Canada's flag don't represent the number of Canadian provinces and territories. David Mikkelson Published July 1, 2008. Image ...

Fifty years ago today, the red-and-white Maple Leaf became Canada's new national flag, a flag that has succeeded in large part because its unique iconography arrived just as Canada was coming into ...

Today Canada celebrates its flag, the red and white Maple Leaf. It is also one of the youngest flags having been officially raised for the first time in a chilly ceremony in front of Canada’s ...

Leader Lester Pearson wanted a flag to represent the new, multicultural Canada. ... He is seen with the very first maple leaf flag that flew on Parliament Hill in1965.

Letter: Canada's flag is a maple leaf. Published 11 November 2015. From Duncan MacKenzie . I was startled to read that Fred Pearce suspects “sugar maples, yellow birch, red spruce and others are ...

Botanists say the image on the new $20 bills is the leaf of a Norway maple, not the familiar sugar maple that graces Canada's flag. The Bank of Canada defends the image, saying it's a "stylized ...

The maple leaf flag turns 50 this Sunday. Every day this week, the Star is looking at the other flags Canadian submitted in the 1960s.

Creator of Canada's maple leaf flag was proud of his Calgary roots. George Stanley’s history as a Calgary resident and Rhodes Scholar-turned-national-flag-designer may fly under the radar.

Red and white had long been Canada’s official colours, and the maple leaf a well-recognized emblem, so it’s no surprise the simple flag won over thousands of designs under consideration by an official ...

Canada’s maple leaf flag born amid bitter debate Whether paraded by a victorious Olympian, stitched on the backpack of a traveller, ...