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The government of Canada has never provided a mathematical or geometric description of the maple leaf on the Canadian flag. Two government drawings of the flag exist: An official hand drawn design drawing from 1964 complete with grid overlay. It has a few minor asymmetry errors.
Date: 27 June 2006 (original upload date) Source: This vector image is generated programmatically from geometry defined in File:Flag of Canada (construction sheet - leaf geometry).svg
Shortly after Canadian Confederation in 1867, the need for distinctive Canadian flags emerged. The first Canadian flag was then used as the flag of the governor general of Canada, a Union Flag with a shield in the centre bearing the quartered arms of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, surrounded by a wreath of maple leaves. [38]
A flag should always be shown, represented or used in a dignified manner. It should not be defaced by way of printing or figures or masked by other objects, but displayed in a manner which may be described as aloft and free, in which all symbolic parts of the flag can be identified. (Department of Canadian Heritage)
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The flag used by the Government of Canada in print media is dark red, as are all physical Canadian flags. The tiny Canadian flag on Government of Canada websites use web-friendly 255-0-0 colours for compatibility and viewability reasons, but this should not be construed as validation of the continued reversions of attempts to correct the colour ...
Based on: *Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg *Image:Flag of Ontario.svg *Image:Flag of Quebec.svg *Image:Flag of New Brunswick.svg *My own drawings A 200kb+monster File usage More than 100 pages use this file.
The national flag of Canada (at left) being flown with the flags of the 10 Canadian provinces and 3 territories. The Department of Canadian Heritage lays out protocol guidelines for the display of flags, including an order of precedence; these instructions are only conventional, however, and are generally intended to show respect for what are considered important symbols of the state or ...