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by Ben Koorengevel, edited by Luc BaronianSee also:
The municipality of Baie-D'Urfé (Baie-d'Urfée until 1960; Baie-d'Urfé
from 1960 to 2002; 3,850 inhabitants in 2011; 603 ha) is located in the West
Island area of the Island of Montreal.
Baie-D'Urfé is named for
François Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfé, who was appointed in 1685 priest of the
Saint-Louis parish, which had been established in 1676 by the Order of
Saint-Sulpice, then lord of the Montreal Island. Isolated on the shore and
surrounded by a dense forest, the parish was threatened by the Iroquois; in
autumn 1687, eight colonists were killed in an ambush, including the
sacristan Jean de la Londe, first colonist of the area. Father d'Urfé was
repatriated to France; the parish church was transferred in 1703 to a safer
site, close to the Senneville fort.
Centuries later, the area was served
by the Bayview railway station. In 1902, some inhabitants asked the railway
to be renamed as Bois-d'Urfé, which gave the name of the town that was
incorporated in 1911.
http://baie-durfe.qc.ca/fr/ - Municipal website
Ivan Sache,
26 March 2017
I took a photo of this flag in 1999 in a Montreal Urban Community building.
The background color was a paler shade of blue however.
Luc Baronian, 9 May 2005
The flag of Baie-D'Urfé is blue with, in the middle, a white disk charged
with the municipal arms and the writing "BAIE D'URFÉ 1686".
The arms of
Baie-D'Urfé were designed in 1961 by Mayor Tommy Lee, based on the arms of
François d'Urfé. The Urfé shield, "Vair a chief gules", is engraved on the base
of François d'Urfé's chalice, preserved in the Notre-Dame Museum. The shield is
crowned by a Marquis' coronet, recalling that François d'Urfé was Marquis of
Beauzé. The crown of thorns surrounding the shield recalls that d'Urfé belonged
to the Society of Saint-Sulpice.
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http://www.baie-durfe.qc.ca/FRANCAIS/armoiries.html - Municipal website
The Urfé arms are seen in several rooms of the family castle, the Bâtie
d'Urfé, located in Saint-Étienne-le-Molard (Forez, France). Claude d'Urfé
(1501-1558), Governor and Bailiff of Forez, represented the King of France at
the Council of Trent (1546) and was appointed Ambassador of France at the Holy
See; he revamped the castle in Renaissance style, building a grotto that is the
last from that period kept in France. His grandson Honoré d'Urfé (1567-1625) is
the author of the first novel sequence in the French literature, "L'Astrée"
(5,400 pages, written between 1607 and 1625).
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http://www.loire.fr/jcms/lw_896393/saint-etienne-le-molard-la-batie-durfe
Ivan Sache, 23 July 2012
The arms of Baie-D'Urfé were inscribed on 15 August 2012 on the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges, Vol. VI, p. 178. The announcement of the Letters Patent was made on March 23, 2012, in Vol. 147, p. 537 of the Canada Gazette.
Symbolism
The arms were borne by François-Saturnin Lascaris d’Urfé
(1641-1701), a Sulpician missionary and the first resident priest of
Saint-Louis-du-Haut-de-l’Île, the site of the present-day town of Baie-d’Urfé.
The last member of the Lascaris d’Urfé family died in 1794, and the town has
used the arms since 1960 to honour its association with the family. The unusual
arrangement of the vair pattern at the base of the arms replicates their
rendering on a silver cup once owned by François-Saturnin Lascaris d’Urfé, now
in the collection of the Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal. According to
tradition, the arms were granted to Wlphe le Robuste, the progenitor of the
family of Lascaris d’Urfé, to honour his participation in the Siege of Antioch
in 1098. In battle, Wlphe wore a coat of scarlet lined with squirrel fur, the
heraldic “vair”, and this coat inspired the design.
Artist Information
Painter: D. Robert Turnbull
Calligrapher: Shirley Mangione
http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=2310 - Public
Register of Arms, Flags and Badges
Photos of the flag
http://wikimapia.org/7128971/fr/H%c3%b4tel-de-Ville-de-Baie-d-Urf%c3%a9-Maison-Charles-Saint-Denis
Ivan Sache, 26 March 2017
