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14 November 2012based on research and information provided by James Croft and Kevin Harrington
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image by Peter Orenski,
14 November 2012
based on research and information
provided by James Croft
and Kevin Harrington
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The flag consists of the town crest with a mill and three gold crowns on a Canadian pale.
The flag of Ancaster Ontario is historical as Ancaster is now a part of the city of Hamilton.
Randy Elzinga, 1 August 2003
I don't know the exact source of the three crowns on the Ancaster flag, but
they derive from the coat of arms, where crowns also adorning the lion
supporters. See
http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Ancaster. Quite commonly in
southern Ontario a crown (or crowns) is (are) used to represent loyalists who
settled in the area in the 18th century. Three crowns are also seen on the flags
of Kingston, Guelph and Wellington
village.
Rob Raeside, 5 August 2016
The Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada treats Ancaster here:
http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=1632&ShowAll=1
and
http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=1632&ProjectElementID=5467.
The crowns are indeed blazoned as "three Loyalist Civil Coronets Or".
The symbolism doesn't seem to be online.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg,
8 August 2016
The Register seems to have the Letter Patents given that an image of said
patent is at the webpage, however it is seemly unreadable. I did a search and
came upon a Canadian Heraldic Authority Gazette article about the two United
Empire Loyalist Coronets. A county or local government could be granted the
coronets on their arms or flags if it was connected to one or more Loyalist.
http://www.uelac.org/UELAC-history/Cdn-Heraldic-Authority-Gazette-1990.pdf
Steve Shumaker, 8 August 2016
The flag and arms of Ancaster were inscribed on 30 December 1992 on the
Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges, Vol. II, p. 218. The announcement of
the Letters Patent was made on November 6, 1993, in Vol. 127, p. 3,406 of the
Canada Gazette.
Blazon
Arms
Vert a representation
of a Georgian water powered grist mill between three Loyalist civil coronets or.
Crest
Out of a mural coronet or masoned vert bearing a frieze of Wild Blue
Iris flowers (Iris versicolor) Proper a demi lion purpure semé of Loyalist civil
coronets or holding in its forepaws a staff or flying therefrom a banner of the
arms with a bordure compony or and vert on the outer three edges.
Supporters
On a grassy mound rising above barry wavy argent and azure two lions or semé of
Loyalist civil coronets vert that on the dexter with the dexter foreleg resting
on a garb or that on the sinister with the sinister foreleg resting on an oak
sapling or.
Motto
AB INITIO AD FUTURUM. This Latin phrase means "From the
beginning unto the world to come" (Sir 24:14)
Flag
Vert a Canadian pale or
charged with an escutcheon of the arms
Artist Information
Creator(s):
Original concept of Robert D. Watt, Chief Herald of Canada, assisted by the
heralds of the Canadian Heraldic Authority
Painter: Linda Nicholson
Calligrapher: Judith Bainbridge
http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=1632 - Public
Register of Arms, Flags and Badges
Ivan Sache, 15 April 2017
