It's hard to imagine a time when the maple leaf wasn't worn as a proud symbol
of Canada. It's on backpacks when we go traveling just so that we're not
mistaken for those, you know, neighbors to the south. But the evolution of that flag
design was a contentious issue and, once again, flared up divisions between
English and French Canada.
Welcome to more Canadian history! Today we get to
discuss the Canadian flag. Hey Pierre! What's red and pointy all over? No! Not a
sunburned porcupine. It's the maple leaf. That was, like, a softball question. Canada had been
a country for almost a hundred years when the then Prime Minister Lester B.
Pearson proposed that we create a flag that would represent the nation. Pearson
had received the Nobel Peace Prize a few years earlier because of how he'd helped
manage the crisis in the Suez Canal. It was during that crisis where he became
very disturbed because the Egyptians really didn't want Canadian peacekeepers
on the ground because the flag still had the Union Jack from Britain. The British
were seen to be aggressors, at least by the Egyptians, and Pearson really wanted
to distance himself from the mother country to prove Canada's own identity.
But there were problems. The leader of the Opposition, and former Prime Minister
himself, John Diefenbaker was a staunch monarchist. He began
snidely referring to any new flag design as the Pearson Pennant. And then there
was the question of how to represent the country. What colors should be used?
Should we go with the British or the French lineage? What symbology should be
used? Pearson, I think quite smartly, realized that he could not use one
symbol to represent one specific group. Therefore the Union flag and a
fleur-de-lis were out as options. George Stanley, who was then the Dean of Arts at
the Royal Military College of Canada, told Pearson that the flag had to avoid
the use of national or racial symbols that are of a divisive nature. Pearson
tasked Stanley with creating the flag that we all now know today. And in this
brilliantly funny piece of political theater, Pearson brought two
options to Parliament to vote on. The opposition, thinking that for sure
Pearson's Liberals would vote on the design that he had publicly stated
beforehand, all voted for the single maple leaf. As did everybody else, and
with no dissenting votes at all the single maple leaf became our flag. On
January 28, 1965 Queen Elizabeth II proclaimed the new flag of Canada and
our burgeoning self-identity began to flourish. Now if only that hockey team
was any good. Pretty cool stuff, huh Pierre! ... What? No, that– this is a family show.
This is the last Canadian history video, at least for right now. If you liked what
you watched let me know down in the comments below, and whether or not you'd
like to see more of these. My name is Kyle, this is Pierre. You were watching
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