21 December 2012

Idle thoughts (of someone else)

What did they depict first on the Canadian flag that they had to cover with a maple leaf afterward?

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9 comments:

Dick Stanley said...

Fig leaf, not maple leaf. Heh.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Exactly, but I couldn't change the original text ;-)

K'Shoshana said...

The first flag of Canada was the British red ensign and it was that way until relatively recently (the sixties) there was a great deal of competition for changing the flag....one of the original suggestions was to put a beaver in the middle of it....but it was thought that no one would take a country serious with a muff in the middle of it's flag - so it was decided to cover the beaver with a leaf.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Uhu... now it is all illuminated. Many thanks, Shoshana!

KatieNorcross said...

That's what I was thinking Dick. I see Great Minds think a like. OK Mediocre Minds.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Well, you both should consider another point: there ain't no fig trees in Canada...

Dick Stanley said...

Hmm, speak for your own mind, dear.

Dick Stanley said...

Their loss, obviously.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

True. But permafrost and hungry bears will get the fig trees anyhow.