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The flag of the Village of Sayward, British Columbia, is vertically divided
blue-white-blue with village shield in the center of the white field. Full
description:
"Whereas James Arthur Loftus, formerly Mayor of the Corporation
of the Village of Sayward in the Province of British Columbia did represent to
the Chief Herald of Canada that the Village of Sayward, named for William
Parsons Sayward, a pioneer, was founded in 1911 and incorporated in as a Village
municipality by Letters Patent dated the 27th day of June 1968 issued pursuant
to the terms of Section 10A of the Municipal Act, revised statutes of British
Columbia, 1960, which village municipality had its boundaries altered and
extended by Letters Patent dated the 9th day of November, 1976 and the 9th day
of November, 1979 and that the affairs of the said Village of Sayward are
governed by a Council composed of the Mayor and four Aldermen;
And Whereas
James Arthur Loftus did advise the Chief Herald that it is the wish of Council
that the Village of Sayward be granted arms by lawful authority, which desire
has been confirmed by the present Mayor, Valarie Diane Lyons;
And Whereas a
Warrant dated the 12th day of March 1991 has been received from the Deputy
Herald Chancellor of the Canadian Heraldic Authority, Lieutenant-General
Francois Richard, authorizing this granting to the Village of Sayward of such
armorial bearings as are fitting and appropriate;
Now know you that pursuant
to the authority vested in His Excellency the Right Honourable Ramon John
Hnatyshyn, a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Chancellor and
Principal companion of the Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of the
Order of Military Merit, one of her Majesty's Counsel learned in the Law,
Governor General and commander-in-chief of Canada, to exercise the armorial
prerogative of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Canada by Letters
Patent dated the 4th day of June 1988, and the terms of my commission of Office,
I , the chief Herald of Canada do by these Presents grant and assign to the
Village of Sayward the following Arms: Or a killer whale naiant Sable
embellished Argent on a chief sapine Azure a Salmon naiant Argent; And for a
crest: Upon a helmet mantled Azure doubled Or on a wreath Or and Azure Trumpeter
Swan sitting close Argent; And for a Motto: AMICUS NATURAE;
And I do further
grant and assign the following Supporters: Upon a compartment of two grassy
mounds joined by barry wavy Azure and Argent two Roosevelt Elk or each gorged
with a collar indented on the upper side Azure; And for a Flag: Azure on a
Canadian pale Argent an escutcheon of the Arms;
As are also more
plainly depicted in the painting herewith provided and entered in Volume II,
page 128 of the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada, to be borne
and used for ever hereafter by the Village of Sayward according to the Law of
Arms of Canada.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Canadian Heraldic
Authority at Rideau Hall in the City of Ottawa this twenty-first day of October
in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and ninety-one, in the second
year of the His Excellency's service in office and in the fortieth year of Her
Majesty's reign.
In Testimony whereof the Herald Chancellor, Judith Anne
LaRocque, and the Deputy Herald Chancellor, Lieutenant-General Francois Richard,
have witnessed this action with their signatures."
Image of the flag and
information thanks to Cameron Cairncross, CAO.
The village:
"First
settled as Port Kusum in the 1890's, at the mouth of Salmon River overlooking
Johnstone Strait, the settlement was officially named Sayward in 1911, after
William Parsons Sayward, a carpenter and lumber merchant who moved from
California to Victoria in 1858, becoming a very successful lumberman on the
Island. Although he never visited the Sayward area, the government of the day
decided he deserved some honour and so named the community after him. When the
first settlers arrived, there was a small First Nations Village on the Salmon
River. By 1917, the Village was empty and today the reserve in unoccupied, with
most of the descendants living in nearby communities. The 2006 population of the
village was 341."
Official website:
http://www.sayward.ca
Valentin Poposki, 8 November 2010
