Feb. 15 is National Flag Day and the good old red and white Maple Leaf flag is celebrating its 60th anniversary. It was first proclaimed in 1996, using the date the current Canadian flag was first ...

When Canada adopted its flag in the mid-1960s, 2,136 of the submitted designs contained a maple leaf. Another 389 featured beavers.

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 ...

The Canadian flag — which many fly as a source of national pride — was adopted on Dec. 15, 1964, with the Senate giving its final approval on Dec. 17. Queen Elizabeth ratified the flag on Jan. 28, ...