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Eugene Ipavec
Source: Canadian City Flags,
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Leamington is a municipality in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. With a population of 27,595 in the Canada 2016 Census, it is the second largest municipality in the Windsor-Essex County area (after the separated municipality of Windsor, Ontario). It includes Point Pelee, the southernmost point of mainland Canada.
Text and image(s) from Canadian City Flags, Raven 18 (2011), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright. Image(s) by permission of Eugene Ipavec.
The flag of the Municipality of Leamington has a white field with
a large badge in the centre, nearly the full height of the flag: a maple leaf in
golden yellow graduating to a darker hue at the edges, and detailed on the
left and right with the leaf’s veins in black. Surmounting the leaf is a simple
shield with a top arched slightly and sides curving slightly outward from the
top down to a “U”-shaped point, edged in black. In the upper fourth is a red
cross on white. Surmounting the centre is a smaller shield of the same shape,
with a white field and a blue border edged outside and inside in yellow. In its
centre is a standing lion in green, with four small fleurs-de-lis in golden yellow
placed around it in the cardinal positions. Surmounting the lion is a blue
inverted “V” shape, edged in yellow, with its apex aligned over the lion’s midsection.
On the “V” are seven yellow discs, with one at the apex and three on
each side. In the blue border are eight fleurs-de-lis in yellow, placed at the top,
the corners, the base, and two on each side, spaced evenly. The lower three-fourths
has a forest green field; on it, below the inner shield, are three maple
leaves in approximate positions of 5, 6, and 7 o’clock; they are orange, with
black veins, and edged in yellow; the lowest leaf is oriented vertically, the others
are angled outwards. Centred over the shield is the silhouette of a bear in brown, walking toward the hoist, and standing on a torse of blue and white.
Below the badge is a ribbon in three equal sections, coloured white in their
centres graduating to blue at the ends, positioned roughly horizontally with
the middle section centred below the other two. Curving below the maple
leaf is LEAMINGTON in red, sans-serif letters.
Christopher Bedwell, Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18,
2011
The design is replete with English, French, and Canadian
symbols—the St. George Cross of red on white for England, the fleur-de-lis
for France, and the maple leaf for Canada, although the shape is different from
that on the national flag. The larger shield is based on the shield of arms of
Ontario; the black bear is its crest. According to the city, The majestic Black
Bear...was once abundant in the...area. Maple leaves represent Canada and the
dense woodlands which once covered the County. The centre device represents
...Ontario. Superimposed upon it are the arms of the Borough of the Royal Leamington
Spa in England.
Christopher Bedwell, Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18,
2011
Unknown.
Christopher Bedwell, Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18,
2011
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