Canada Flag 3'x5' Polyester

This is a full-size Canada flag from Flags Importer: 3 × 5 ft of dye-sublimated polyester with a reinforced header and metal grommets, ready for a pole, a porch bracket or a wall. It's the familiar red-and-white Maple Leaf, made for everyday flying at home or at a business rather than for ceremony, and it's sold here next to our Pride flags for anyone who likes to fly both.

The Maple Leaf design

Two red vertical bands frame a white square centre, and a red eleven-point maple leaf sits in the middle. According to the government's official description, the leaf originally had thirteen points; it was simplified to eleven so it would stay clear at a distance and in wind. The same description sets the flag at exactly twice as long as it is high. A 3 × 5 ft flag is a standard commercial size, so this one is slightly squarer than that specification, which is normal for flags sold for houses, balconies and storefronts.

How this maple leaf flag is made

Dye sublimation bonds the colour into the polyester fibres rather than laying ink on top, which keeps the red crisp and stops it cracking when the fabric flexes. It's printed on one side and the dye soaks through, so the back shows a mirror image. With a symmetrical leaf, that hardly matters: the reverse still reads as the Maple Leaf. Every edge is double-stitched, and the fly end, the edge that whips around most in wind, gets four rows of stitching.

Hanging it and keeping it looking good

The header tape runs along the hoist edge, and the supplier lists three metal grommets in it. Clip them to the snaps on a halyard, slide them over hooks on a bracket pole, or hang the flag flat on a wall. Light polyester lifts in a gentle breeze, but it also wears faster in constant wind, so bring it in for storms and trim any loose threads at the fly end before they spread.

Specifications

• Brand: Flags Importer
• Size: 3 × 5 ft
• Material: polyester, dye-sublimated
• Printing: one side, showing through to the back
• Header: header tape with metal grommets (three, per the supplier)
• Stitching: double-stitched edges, four rows on the fly end
• Design: red and white with an eleven-point maple leaf

Flying a Pride flag alongside it? See our rainbow Maple Leaf flag or a 3 × 5 ft rainbow Pride flag in the same size.