Canada is more than just the iconic red-and-white maple leaf. Across its vast provinces, territories, and communities, there are dozens of obscure flags—some historic, some quirky, and some you’ve ...

In telling these stories, Harper is also telling the story of Canada. For, as he observes, any debate over a flag is really a debate “about identity, history and the collective narratives in ...

Pearson was barely audible above the Conservative cat calls, but he got out a line that will join him in the history books as the man who gave Canada its own emblem: ‘This is a flag for the ...

Diefenbaker has long argued that Conservatives would never accept a flag that left out the Union Jack as a symbol of Canada’s historic ties to Great Britain. He expected that the five ...

The renewed interest in Canada’s maple leaf flag, fueled by intense opposition ... as “among the ugliest in the House of Commons history” because of the strong opposition from members ...

But in fact they were witnessing the unveiling of one of the best-designed flags in history, a banner that ... the world as the unambiguous symbol of Canada. The various Nordic flags are famously ...