I remember when Canada gave up a perfectly good flag and replaced it with a pedestrian Maple leaf design.
Wasn't that around Canada's 1967 Centennial? My paternal grandmother, born & raised in New Brunswick, married a Maine Yankee & crossed the border to eventually become a U.S. naturalized citizen in ~1941, held a grudge against Ottawa for the rest of her long life (died 2002) for dropping the "union jack".