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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)
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.
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 ...
Maple leaf updated to match File:Flag of Canada (construction sheet 2).svg. Text paths changed to simple text to reduce file size. Flag is 600x300; 3px black border lines are centered over top of the flag edges and therefore project 1.5px past the edges; this results in an image size of 603x303. 04:56, 8 December 2008: 600 × 300 (83 KB ...
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]
Changed the insides of the leaves to be black rather than gold: 19:32, 4 December 2020: 1,000 × 500 (189 KB) OMGShay 92: In order to match the flag of Canada from 1957, the shield must be in the same shape. 02:50, 29 October 2020: 1,000 × 500 (57 KB) OneHundredNumbers: Reverted to version as of 03:05, 14 November 2019 (UTC) 10:11, 31 December ...
Group B finalist for the 1964 contest to adopt the Canadian flag. Maple leaf, in the contest, created by George Stanley [1]. The maple leaf was eventually modified to create the Canadian flag currently in use. [2]