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Canadian historian Archer Fortescue Duguid claimed in the 1940s that the King had selected red and white because those were the colours of the wreath and mantling on the coat of arms. Forrest Pass, a curator at Library and Archives Canada , determined there is no record of either the King or the committee giving much importance to the mantling ...
Canadian Inuit Dog – Purple saxifrage – – Nunavut Sanginivut (Our land, our strength) – Ontario [11] Common loon – – White trillium: Eastern white pine: Amethyst: Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet (loyal she began thus she remains) Prince Edward Island [12] Blue jay: Red fox [13] – Lady's slipper: Red oak – Parva sub ingenti
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 ...
The National Flag of Canada (French: Drapeau national du Canada), [1] often referred to simply as the Canadian flag, consists of a red field with a white square at its centre in the ratio of 1∶2∶1, in which is featured one stylized, red, 11-pointed maple leaf charged in the centre. [2]
Other prominent symbols include the national motto, A Mari Usque Ad Mare (From Sea to Sea), [10] the sports of hockey and lacrosse, the beaver, Canada goose, Canadian horse, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canadian Rockies, the Canadian parliamentary complex, the Canadarm, [11] and, more recently, the Canadianization of totem poles and ...
This is a page that aims to document commonly-used map colors for election maps of Canadian elections, so maps have consistent coloring. A map should either use colors to indicate percentage, the "win" colors, or the "hold" and "gain" colors. These should not be mixed - for example, no map should use both the "win" and "gain" colors.
The maple leaf tartan was designed in 1964 by David Weiser to commemorate the new Canadian flag. [1] [2] The four colours reflect the colours of the maple leaf as it changes through the seasons—green in the spring, gold in the early autumn, red at the first frost, and brown after falling. [3]
The Canadian Commissioner-General in Paris discreetly confirmed with French officials that the coat of arms would not spark a diplomatic spat. [27] A counter-proposal from the college added the flags to the supporters and a crown to the lion, as in the British arms, and placed the three fleurs-de-lis between two green maple leaves in the fifth ...