----1925
A Privy Council was assigned in 1925 to find a new Canadian flag. The Privy Council began to search for new creative designs for the new flag. However, that goal was never accomplished.
----1964
It all began one afternoon in the late autumn of 1964. An urgent call came from the Prime Minister, Lester B. Pearson, to the desk of Ken Donovan. The message was that the Prime Minister wanted prototypes of proposals for the new flag to take to his new residence in Harrington Lake the next morning. On the table were three proposals that included a maple leaf out of 2,600 other proposals.
In October after taking out several of proposals, they were left with three proposals which included the design with a Maple leaf. Lester B. Pearson informed the House of Commons that they want to adopt a distinctive flag. The three possible designs were by: Red Ensign with the fleur-de-lis and the Union Jack, a flag that included three Maple leafs......
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