Queen Elizabeth II Highway

[cowman]

Emerald: I wonder if your "maples" are Manitoba maples? I was informed a Manitoba maple isn't actually a maple at all! It is actually a box elder? And that is what they call it in the US?
However it basically resembles a real maple?

[cowman]

I have Manitoba maples but they do not turn red in the fall, I have Amur maples that do.
I realize that our maples and the ones in eastern Canada aren't one and the same.
As for the maple leaf on the flag, didn't 'The Maple Leaf Forever' have some national significance ages and ages ago ?

I can remember my grandmother singing it at the top of her lungs....and she sure as heck wasn't from Ontario !