In the gruelling 1964 quest for a national flag, the red-and-white and maple leaf motifs found their way onto numerous submissions from organizations and citizens across Canada — notably the Pearson ...

Andrew Potter is the author of On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever. Is the flag of Canada that flies over the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill, along with ...

The Maple Leaf made the cut for the Canadian flag because it had spent decades as an organic symbol of Canada. The Maple Leaf Forever was an early patriotic anthem, and in both world wars the ...

Keep reading for a background on our national flag and then scroll down to take the quiz. ... On February 15, 1965, Canada's official flag was raised for the first time on Parliament Hill.

Not so long after the flag was adopted, Canada hosted the world for Expo 67 in Montreal, on the 100th anniversary of Confederation. "This was a really big thing because the world was now coming to ...