All of the country's living former prime ministers are asking Canadians to fly the red maple leaf this weekend in a huge ...

Leaves are probably the most common feature used to identify trees. But in winter, when so many trees have dropped their ...

Morris Michtom, a small toy store owner, put two stuffed ’teddy bears’ in his Brooklyn shop window for sale, inspired by an incident involving then-US President Theodore Roosevelt. Also, on this day, ...

Flower – One of the first trees to flower in the spring with small red flowers that hang in clusters. Twigs – Opposite branching; without fetid odor, compared to silver maple; reddish and lustrous; ...

A flag manufacturer in British Columbia says it is seeing a rise in sales of Canadian flags amid threats of U.S. tariffs, ...

Sixty years ago, at the stroke of noon on a crisp, snowy, brilliantly sunny day, the Maple Leaf flag was raised for the first time on Canada’s Parliament Hill. The flag’s birth had been long and ...

The Canadian flag — which many fly as a source of national pride — officially flew for the first time on Feb. 15, 1965. Here are the rules you should know.