Here’s what our Flag could have looked like!

Here’s a submission for the open competition to design Canada’s first flag. Our modern 11-point flag of the red maple leaf, one of the hardest flags to draw freehand, was inaugurated on February 15, 1965.

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Canada’s motto of “Sea to Sea” could have been changed to “Tree to Tree”.
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qcb101
9 years ago

Yuck! Am glad we didn’t go this route… They might as well have offered an earthworm! ;). But the green is nice… Sort of like Norfolk island’s flag