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  1. 15-February-2005 01:05 PM #1
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    Default Maple Leaf Flag becomes 40

    Congrats, Cannucks!

    One of the best flag designs around.

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    Great flag. Great country. =D> =D> =D>

    (Of course two colour flags are much better than three coloured ones. )
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    From a country with a hideously ugly flag, let me just say =D>
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bawheid
    Great flag. Great country.
    And a beautiful one. Salute.
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    This is a teeny bit off-thread, but I've always wondered....

    Why did Canada change its National Anthem from "The Maple Leaf Forever" (hope I got that right) to "Oh, Canada?" I know there are some sensitivities about the legal status/independance re the UK Mother Country, so I suspect that the change is related to this issue.

    I'm embarassed to say that most of my knowledge of Canadian political/national affairs is based on my listening to "Sergeant Preston" on the radio in the late 1940s :P "Maple Leaf" was heard often in that series.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sammy
    This is a teeny bit off-thread, but I've always wondered....

    Why did Canada change its National Anthem from "The Maple Leaf Forever" (hope I got that right) to "Oh, Canada?"
    July 1, 1980 though "God Save the Queen" was probably more widely used up until then.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sammy
    Why did Canada change its National Anthem from "The Maple Leaf Forever" (hope I got that right) to "Oh, Canada?" I know there are some sensitivities about the legal status/independance re the UK Mother Country, so I suspect that the change is related to this issue.
    Maple Leaf Forever has been the "unofficial" anthem. Definately, it wouldn't do, having Wolfe mentioned in the anthem these days. Here is a history of "Oh, Canada". This is a different view.
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    Yeah, I've never heard of The Maple Leaf Forever. God Save the Queen is still played at most formal events, though, especially at formal school or federal ceramonies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TriangleMan
    Quote Originally Posted by Sammy
    This is a teeny bit off-thread, but I've always wondered....

    Why did Canada change its National Anthem from "The Maple Leaf Forever" (hope I got that right) to "Oh, Canada?"
    July 1, 1980 though "God Save the Queen" was probably more widely used up until then.
    While I like "The Maple Leaf Forever", and particularly newer (less jingoistic) lyrics such as those performed by "Finest Kind", I don't think that it ever was our official national anthem.

    I can remember singing it as a patriotic song, much as the citizens of the USA sing "America", but for as long as I have known it, and that's a bit longer than the flag has been around - it's been "Oh Canada".

    I know that God Save the Queen was the official anthem, but that was just a formality and was really never used.

    The flag... As a child I preferred the design that would have given us one with two blue borders and three leaves, but this one will do.

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    Thanks for the info on "Maple Leaf." It's obvious that the Americans who wrote "Sergeant Preston" didn't get it right!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sammy
    Thanks for the info on "Maple Leaf." It's obvious that the Americans who wrote "Sergeant Preston" didn't get it right!
    That's another "Maple Leaf" Sammy.

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    AGH! I missed this thread! AGH! AGH! AGH!

    Oh well.

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