My backpack still has a sewn-on Canadian flag from 8th grade.
Canada welcomed many Eastern European refugees fleeing Stalin at the end of WWII, including my parents and 100% of my surviving relatives.
Thank you!!!
Date 9 September 2006, 12:09:02
Source Flickr: O Canada
Author Steve Jurvetson http://www.flickr.com/people/44124348109@N01
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:O_Canada_goose.jpg

The Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is a large wild goose species with a black head and neck, white patches on the face, and a brown body. Native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, the migration of Canada geese occasionally reaches northern Europe.