There’s perhaps no more recognizable symbol of Canada than its red-and-white flag with its bright maple leaf, and Feb. 15 is a day to officially celebrate it — otherwise known as National Flag Day.

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

The eleven points on the maple leaf of Canada's flag don't represent the number of Canadian provinces and territories. David Mikkelson Published July 1, 2008. Image ...

Clara Hughes was nervous. The five-time Olympic medallist was just about to carry the Canadian Maple Leaf flag into the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. But the speedskater ...

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 ...

Canada’s maple leaf flag is 60 years old, and Windsor is celebrating the anniversary by showing off one of the few originals. One of six historic maple leaf flags to soar over Parliament Hill on ...

The Maple Leaf flag was not always Canada’s flag. Since the Dominion of Canada was created 1867, Canada has had many flags . Attempts were made to consider a national flag in 1925 and 1946, but ...

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, ...

Today Canada celebrates its flag, the red and white Maple Leaf. It is also one of the youngest flags having been officially raised for the first time in a chilly ceremony in front of Canada’s ...

Fifty years ago today, the red-and-white Maple Leaf became Canada's new national flag, a flag that has succeeded in large part because its unique iconography arrived just as Canada was coming into ...

Museum Windsor on Flag Day is displaying one of six historic maple leaf flags flown over Parliament Hill on Feb. 15, 1965. Free admission.