O Canada! To celebrate Saturday's 60th anniversary of the Canadian flag, Museum Windsor is displaying one of the original maple leafs raised on Parliament Hill on Feb. 15, 1965.

In the lifetime of anyone younger than about fifty, the Canadian flag has always been its current simple, yet bold and distinctive, red-and-white maple leaf design. And those who weren't around ...

After being approved by Canada’s House of Commons and the Senate, the Maple Leaf flag was inaugurated in a ceremony on Parliament Hill on Feb. 15, 1965. Canada’s national flag turns 56 today!

One of the clearest signs of this shift is the Maple Leaf flag. Once seen by some as a symbol co-opted by the Freedom Convoy movement, the flag is now being embraced by a broader group of Canadians.

Before 1964, Canada used the Canadian Red Ensign, which featured the Union Jack. The need for a unique flag grew , especially after the Second World War, but consensus was hard to achieve.

Botanists say the image on the new $20 bills is the leaf of a Norway maple, not the familiar sugar maple that graces Canada's flag. The Bank of Canada defends the image, saying it's a "stylized ...

The red maple leaf makes the Canadian flag unmistakable. It gets displayed prominently on occasions like Canada Day or year-round at government properties, but recently flags have been popping up just ...

A botanist says the Bank of Canada has barked up the wrong maple tree with its new plastic banknotes, using a foreign Norway maple leaf as the emblem on the notes instead of the sugar maple the ...

Photo by TONY CALDWELL / POSTMEDIA Fifty-seven years ago, at noon on Feb. 15, our red and white maple leaf flag was formally raised for the first time across Canada.

One of the clearest signs of this shift is the Maple Leaf flag. Once seen by some as a symbol co-opted by the Freedom Convoy movement, the flag is now being embraced by a broader group of Canadians.

Canada's national flag celebrates 60 years of representing the country. The Weather Network's Nathan Coleman looks into the history of the iconic flag. The red maple leaf makes the Canadian flag ...

Reclaimed flag One of the clearest signs of this shift is the Maple Leaf flag. Once seen by some as a symbol co-opted by the Freedom Convoy movement, the flag is now being embraced by a broader ...