The fate of the fallen Maple Leaf Forever tree rests in the hands of City Hall this week. Please, no jokes about dead wood. You may recall the gnarly old silver maple, said to have inspired the song, ...

TORONTO - The stirring brass of a regimental band and the whir of a powerful saw marked the next phase in the life of Canada’s most beloved tree, the silver maple that - legend has it - inspired ...

Author Shel Silverstein’s classic children’s tale of 1964, The Giving Tree, tells of a lifelong relationship between a boy and a tree. As a youngster, the boy makes crowns from its leaves, swings from ...

The famed and felled silver maple tree on Laing Avenue in Leslieville that inspired Alexander Muir’s unofficial Canadian anthem, The Maple Leaf Forever, in 1867 is getting tons of new leases on life.

After a windstorm toppled the Toronto tree thought to have inspired the Maple Leaf Forever, an 1867 song that cemented the leaf as an enduring Canadian symbol, some worried history might die alongside ...

The violent storm that swept across Toronto, as well as most of central and eastern Canada, has destroyed what is arguably the most famous tree in Canada. Only a large stump is left of the historic ...

TORONTO - A tree said to have inspired the song The Maple Leaf Forever was a victim of severe weather that hit southern Ontario. The aged silver maple near downtown Toronto was among the many trees ...

The iconic Maple Leaf Forever tree at Maple Cottage will gain new life after falling over during a wind storm. The city is looking for ideas to repurpose the leftover wood from the tree on Laing ...

The National Capital Commission (NCC) has committed to planting only native Canadian Maple Leaf trees instead of foreign-bred maples on all its urban lands in the future because of the leaf's ...