National colours of Canada

Similarly, the creation of Queen Elizabeth II's royal standard in 1962 is also considered to be when red and white were unofficially set as the national colours.

[3] The idea of the coat of arms determining the country's official colours was expressed as far back as 1918, when Eugène Fiset argued "red suggested Britishness, military sacrifice, and autumn splendour.

[1] Canadian historian Archer Fortescue Duguid claimed in the 1940s that the King had selected red and white because those were the colours of the wreath and mantling on the coat of arms.

Forrest Pass, a curator at Library and Archives Canada, determined there is no record of either the King or the committee giving much importance to the mantling.

[5] Nathan Tidridge argued that it was the creation of the royal standard of Queen Elizabeth II in 1961 that set red and white as the national colours.

[8] For the Federal Identity Program operated by the Treasury Board Secretariat, official and signage colours are specified in technical specification T-145.

[12] The Canadian Forces' Decoration ribbon consists of four red bars separated by equally spaced thin white lines.

The Toronto Blue Jays, a franchise in Major League Baseball, honour Canada Day by wearing an alternate jersey instead of the team's usual uniform.

Culture of Canada
The royal standard of Elizabeth II , Queen of Canada , from 1961 to 2022
Two solid red vertical bars on the left and right, each one quarter of the width of the flag. The middle half is white, with an 11-point maple leaf at its centre, approximately 80% of the height of the flag stem to tip, and 80% of the width of the white background on which it rests.
The Flag of Canada consists of elements using only the national colours.
The Canadian men's national ice hockey team wearing jerseys that feature the national colours of Canada