In Popular Culture
- The chorus is played at the end of the 1939 Shirley Temple film Susannah of the Mounties.
- The song is used as a Canadian symbol in the 1942 James Cagney film Captains of the Clouds.
- It is the opening theme of each episode of The King Chronicle, Donald Brittain's 1988 NFB/CBC miniseries about the long career of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
- Scottish-Canadian celtic punk band "The Real McKenzies" played an adapted version of the song on their 2008 album Off the Leash, named "The Maple Trees Remember".
- An arrangement of "The Maple Leaf Forever" using the modified Radian lyrics was employed by performer Michael Bublé for the 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony.
- The Maple Leaf Forever is used in the opening and closing credits of a Documentary series on the History Channel entitled "For King and Empire". The series chronicles Canadian Soldiers and the Canadian Corps during the Great War.
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—Anonymous. Popular saying.
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