The Canadian Flag on This Day in History

This Day in History: The new red-and-white maple leaf design was adopted as the flag of Canada on this day in 1965. It is rather a wimpy flag. When you consider that other countries picked strong animals to represent them (Eagles, Bears) Canada picked...the beaver, so it should not come as a surprise that England’s Castoff Country should pick a symbol so picayune as a leaf. When you consider that Barbados actually has Aquaman’s trident (a badass weapon) on the center of their flag, Canada could have picked a tomahawk. As The Ringer stated about the Canadian flag:

"You’re making your flag and you can put basically anything you want on there. And you want something that is strong, but not overbearing; attractive, but not dismissable; smart, but not ostentatious. It can go a ton of different ways. Pick any animal. Pick any weapon. Pick any color. Pick any symbol. All of everything is available. It’s all there for you. And you settle on … a leaf? Not even the whole tree? Trees  are strong. Trees are noble. Trees are useful. Leaves are like the fingernails of trees...I’m willing to bet there’s never been one single time in all of history when someone found a detached fingernail and was like, 'This is a good thing.' Canada: Great country, worst flag."

Canada is (song by Roger Whittaker)

Buster Keaton Travelling through Canada in The Railrodder