A Saskatoon photographer captured his own heritage minute after he witnessed a beaver standing on guard for thee, right under a Canadian flag. 

Or so he thought. 

Using two branches, Mike Digout placed a Canadian flag over a popular beaver passage in the heart of Saskatoon on the Meewasin Trail. 

A family of beavers are known to frequent the area so Digout thought it’d be “really cool to get a picture of a beaver with a Canadian flag.”

But Canada’s national animal had other plans. 

LISTEN | A truly Canadian moment: cheeky beaver takes off with Saskatoon man’s Canada flag

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