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image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 October 2026
based on photo located by Vanja Poposki, 16 May 2026
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Melancthon Township is part of Dufferin County, Ontario. The flag of the
township, bearing number 2000, is shown on the Canadian Museum of History
website. That flag might be specially designed for the celebration of the New
Millenium, but this is only speculation.
https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/2622508
Vanja Poposki, 16 May 2026
A 1:2 white flag with a large heraldic style emblem centered on it. It can be
blazoned as per bend sinister I Gules a plough Or and II Vert two potatoes Or
and on a pile overall throughout issuing from the base in bend sinister Argent
billety Or the figures "2000" Azure annd on a chief Azure a copse of three trees
Or between a crescent Or at dexter and a maple leaf Or at sinister. Two ears of
wheat Or serve as supporters and at the coronet/crest position bare lettering
reading "Township of" and on a scroll Gules the name "Melancthon".
All
colors are markedly dark; Or is rendered in amber, with contrast against the
white background. Text is all caps; with serifs on the scroll, sans serif
elsewhere. The shield has parallel sides and its top edge at right angles, the
bottom rounds in slight sigmoids to a slightly pointed tip. It has a triple
edge, thicker white at the center itself edged amber; the scroll has simple
amber edging. The pile is thinly contoured in amber and a thicker amber line
separates the chief from the field. The digits are thinly contoured in white.
Th
museum website page about the flag (treated as an exhibit) shows that the
reverse shows the same image as the obverse, but flipped.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 October 2026
