Winnipeg's 'living' Canadian flag featured in new stamp

A huge "living" Canadian flag featuring thousands of Winnipeggers has been immortalized in a new postage stamp.

Canada Post has chosen a photograph of the country's largest living flag, captured in the Manitoba capital last year, as the centrepiece of a five-stamp series celebrating Canadian culture.

The domestic-rate stamps were made available to the public on Monday. They can be purchased at all Canada Post outlets.

More than 3,000 Winnipeggers, dressed in red and white T-shirts, posed in front of the Manitoba legislature to form the flag on Canada Day 2012.

It was the country's largest living flag ever recorded, besting Victoria, Langley and Calgary's attempts by a landslide margin.

"Last summer, Winnipeggers stood shoulder to shoulder to form the biggest Living Flag in the country," Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger said in a release.

"I am proud that their efforts will be permanently recorded in such a special way."

Selinger was joined at the legislature on Monday by Winnipeg-area Conservative MP Steven Fletcher, and Stefano Grande of the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ, as they showed reporters the new stamp.