Maple Leaf Research Paper

Did you know the largest Canadian flag ever made according to Flying Colours International was recently unveiled at a football game in Hamilton. Game was between Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts. The flag was 38 metres by 76 metres, and required at least 80 pairs of hands to carry it on to the field. This flag will never fly, it's too big, but it will be brought on to the turf at Ivor Wynne Stadium, the Tiger cat's home base, for the start of every home game. A flag that size costs $15,000. The search for a new national flag was long because of the democratic process. The Maple Leaf was not the only flag that Canada had, proposal of the Maple leaf and flag debate are the points that this essay focusses on. It is important to know what the …show more content…
There had been many before it. They are the “Fleur-de-lis”, “Union Jack” and “Red Ensign”. This flags were first introduced when explores from different parts of Europe came to Canada. “Fleur-de-lis” was introduced by the French sovereignty and was the first flag to wave over Canada from 1534. This was because of Jacques Cartier. When Cartier landed Cartier claimed the new world for France, until the early 1760s, when Canada was ceded to the United Kingdom. Then came the “Union Jack”. In the early 1760s, the official British flag was the Two-Crossed jack or the Royal Union flag. From 1801 the style of the flag changed. After the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, the diagonal Cross of St. Patrick was incorporated with England's St. George's Cross and Scotland's Cross of St. Andrew. This gave the Royal Union flag its present day structure. Union Jack was used across British North America and in Canada even after Confederation from 1867 until 1965. After and last flag that came before the “one leafed” was the Red Ensign. The Red Ensign belong to Canada, it represented Canada in everything before the Maple Leaf was Canada’s national flag.