A Flag for Canada is a stunning visual biography of Canada's flag that traces the maple leaf symbol from its colonial origins to its acceptance as the unofficial but unmistakable emblem of Canada. On February 15, 1965, the Maple Leaf was raised for the first time on Parliament Hill. In the almost forty years since, it has become one of the world's great flags - a universally recognized emblem.

Rick Archbold is a Toronto based writer and editor who was a politically engaged teenager during the turbulent 1960s. He has carried his teenage fascination with Canadian history and politics into the twenty-five years of his publishing career, taking a hand in writing or editing books by or about many prominent politicians, including Eugene Whelan, Brian Mulroney, Audrey McLaughlin, Kim Campbell, Mike Harris, Paul Martin and Jean Chrétien. His writing credits include The Discovery of the Titanic (with Robert Ballard), Robert Bateman: Natural Worlds, Conversations with Mummies (with Rosalie David) and Canada: Our History, An Album Through Time. He was also the editor of The Museum called Canada.

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