Great Canadian Flag Debate Canadian Red Ensign the official Canadian flag by Order in Council. Mackenzie King also tried to give Canada a new flag. The recommendation that came back was a Red Ensign, but substituting the coat of arms of Canada with a gold maple leaf. Mackenzie King stopped the venture. In 1958, an extensive poll was taken of the attitudes that adult Canadians held toward the flag. Of those who expressed opinions, over 80% wanted a national flag entirely different from that of any other nation, and 60% wanted their flag to bear the maple leaf. From his office as leader of
Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn war photograph in Finnish World War II history. It was compared to similar pictures, such as the American "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" and the Soviet "Raising a Flag over the Reichstag", although it was not considered to have become as symbolic as they were. In fact, the Finnish popular memory of the conflict relied equally on fictional pictures, such as the cover of "The Unknown Soldier", a 1954 war novel about the Continuation War. Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn is a historic photograph taken on 27 April 1945, which