Happy Canada Day. 

"Svend" (svend) 07/01/2018 at 04:51 • Filed to: None

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I’ve just been looking up the Canadian national flag, the Maple Leaf.

((very brief synopsis of events))

Back in 1964 PM Lester Bowles Pearson wanted a new flag for Canada, in part from the Suez Crisis in that Egypt saw the Canadian Red Ensign as a British flag but very much to give Canada it’s own identity. He was up against a lot of resistance very much from John Diefenbaker who saw it as an assault on the country and what it stands for and it’s history.

It was put to George Stanley by MP John Matheson to come up with some ideas on a flag. George was into drawing and came up with an idea at the Royal Military College in Kingston where he was the Dean of Arts.

He took the flag of the college as inspiration and placed the Maple Leaf in the centre.

That is the story of the Red Maple Leaf.

It was later made illegal in some provinces to fly the Red Ensign, but after much protesting from the Canadian ex-service men and woman who insisted that they fought in WWI and WWII under the Red Ensign, they should be allowed to fly it.

Whether your a Red Ensign or Red Maple Leaf or The Maple Leaf Forever or Oh Canada, whatever flag or anthem, we are here with you and will stand shoulder to shoulder with you always .

Happy Canada day.

God save our Queen and heaven bless, the Maple Leaf forever.

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > Svend 07/01/2018 at 06:17

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The more you know!
Thanks for the interesting info.

Happy Canaday everyone.

KnowsAboutCars > Svend 07/01/2018 at 07:22

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I totally forgot that the M aple L eaf flag is that young.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Svend 07/01/2018 at 07:34

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Thanks! Our flag does have an interesting story! Fun fact - one of my professors in university at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia was the daughter of the gentleman (George Stanley) that designed the Canadian Flag. :)

Kudos for the solidarity!

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Svend 07/01/2018 at 08:38

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There is an alternate anthem? I’ve always been maple leaf (because I don’t remember the other) and Oh Canada.

Happy Canada Day!

Svend > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 07/01/2018 at 09:03

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This was the old yet unofficial national anthem for Canada.

Though later there are a couple of versions removing reference to Great Britain.

Many national anthems were never made official and written down as such , it wasn’t deemed necessary. The British national anthem of God Save The Queen was only made official recently after someone looked up what else wasn’t officially written as being so when the Royal Mail was possibly going to be bought out by Deutsch Post and it was found that there is no official written document stating Her Majesty’s profile be on U.K. stamps.

Something have always been a certain way so nobody questions it, until something comes up and people look and realise. 

M.T. Blake > Svend 07/01/2018 at 09:14

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You guys are like a really polite apartment on top of a really rowdy party. “Can you keep the noise down eh?!”

Svend > M.T. Blake 07/01/2018 at 09:23

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I’m British. But I do love our cousins beyond the seas.