There's no mistaking the sketch as anything but Canada's flag. But as Pearson's point person, John Matheson gets much of the credit, Wright said. "There are a group of people, it's mainly ...

At the time of Confederation in 1867, Canada's official flag was the Royal Union flag ... and within an hour he had a finished sketch that all three men approved. They then took this refined ...

During his election campaign in the spring of 1963, he had promised to give Canada a national flag of its own to take the place of Britain’s Union Jack and Canada’s semi official Red Ensign ...

Debate in and out of Parliament got so ugly that the Toronto Star, in a series of articles by Peter C. Newman, dubbed it “The Great Flag Farce.”.