Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

How Canada’s Flag Ended Up With A Maple Leaf Instead Of Union Jacks, Beavers Or Mounties

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Happy Canada Day! The flag you’ll see at events across the country today has quite an origin story: one guy, one red pen and a lot of potential roadblocks. Plus: for National Postal Worker Day in the US, the story of how the Postal Service set up an office in Antarctica. A letter, a red pen and a hand-drawn sketch: How George Stanley created Canada's flag (CBC)  Little America, Antarctica, Post Office (US Postal Service)Fly the flag for our show as a backer on Patreon