Which McDonald's restaurant sign was the first to use the company's famous Golden Arches in Canada?

The McDonald's restaurant sign in Richmond, British Columbia, was the first in Canada to use the famous Golden Arches.

The sign is associated with the McDonald's restaurant on No. 3 Road in Richmond, near Vancouver. It became an early Canadian example of the arches functioning as a recognizable roadside brand marker rather than merely as part of a restaurant building's structure.

McDonald's entered Canada in 1967, when its first Canadian restaurant opened in Richmond. The Canadian launch helped establish the company's international expansion beyond the United States, and the Richmond location became an important landmark in the history of the brand's Canadian presence.

This fact is sometimes confused with the first McDonald's restaurant in Canada, because the same Richmond location is central to both stories. The wording matters: the question concerns the first Canadian sign using the arches, not the date of the original San Bernardino restaurant or the later unified corporate logo.