the Canadian flag, unofficially known as the Maple Leaf and (l'Unifolié), is a flag consisting
of a red field with a white square at its centre featuring a stylized, red, 11-pointed
maple leaf.
The maple leaf has been used as a Canadian emblem since the 18th century.
It was first used as a national symbol in 1868 when it appeared on the coat of arms
of both Ontario and Quebec.
red and white the official colours of Canada; which came from Saint George's Cross.
Before the current flag the Canadian Red Ensign was unofficially used since the 1890s and
approved by a 1945 Order in Council for use "wherever place or occasion may make it desirable
to fly a distinctive Canadian flag".
In 1964, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson formed a committee to resolve the issue of
the lack of an official Canadian flag.
Out of three choices, the maple leaf design by George Stanley was selected.
The flag made its first official appearance on February 15, 1965; the date is now celebrated
annually as National Flag of Canada Day.
Also interesting side note the Union Jack – known as the Royal Union Flag - remains
an official flag in Canada.
The flag of Mexico (Spanish: Bandera de México) is a vertical tricolour of green, white, and
red with the national coat of arms in the centre of the white stripe.
While the meaning of the colours has changed over time, these three colours were adopted
by Mexico following independence from Spain during the country's War of Independence.
The form of the coat of arms was most recently revised in 1968, but the basic design has
been used since 1821.
Red, white, and green were the colours of the national liberation army known as the
Army of the Three Guarantees who fought against Spain during the war of independence.
The central emblem is the Mexican coat of arms, based on the Aztec symbol for (Tenochtitlan)
Mexico City, the center of the Aztec empire.
It recalls the legend of an eagle sitting on a cactus that signalled to the Aztecs where
to found their city, Tenochtitlan.
- The flag of the United States of America,
consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red alternating with white, with a blue
rectangle in the canton -referred to as the "union"- which has fifty small, white, five-pointed
stars arranged in nine rows.
The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 US States, and the 13 stripes represent the
thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and became
the first states in the U.S.
The flag is based on the ensign flag of the thirteen colonies, which during the war of
independence had six white stripes added in order to create a new flag representing the
13 colonies.
This flag would be used until 1777, when it would form the basis for the subsequent designs.
On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution which stated: " That
the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white;
that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."
Because of this Flag Day is now observed on June 14 of each year.
the design of the flag has been modified officially 26 times since 1777; and The current design
of the U.S. flag is its 27th.
The current 50-star flag was ordered by president Eisenhower in August 1959, and was adopted
in July 1960.
It is the longest-used version of the U.S. flag.