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From
http://www.saultstar.com/2015/08/11/new-city-flag-coming-for-sault-ste-marie:
A new flag could soon fly over Sault Ste. Marie.
The city will begin
seeking proposals for designs for a revamped municipal flag. The move comes as
new municipal Coat of Arms is in the final stages of approval from Office of the
Governor General of Canada.
During Monday night’s council meeting
Councillor Matthew Shoemaker pointed out that there are conflicting views about
what the municipal flag actually looks like. The consensus seemed to be that we
don’t really have an official municipal flag adopted by the city “that is
something that all of Sault Ste. Marie can display and be proud of,” he said.
With the coat of arms changing, it presents an opportunity to develop a new flag
so the city can “have something that is simple, elegant, and could be something
that we encourage our residents to fly,” Shoemaker said.
The city will
look to design staff within at city hall to see if they can come up with a
municipal flag design that council can consider. If that proves unfruitful, the
city will explore other options. A committee will be formed to review the Sault
Ste. Marie municipal flag proposals and make a recommendation to council on a
new design. Local artist Eva Pilar-Cass designed the new coat of arms. It will
receive approval from the heraldic society and from the Governor General. Cost
for the preliminary design artwork for the coat of arms is $595.
located by
Dave Fowler, 17 August 2015
From
http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/details.asp?c=96220:
A
resolution put forward by Ward 3 Councillor Matthew Shoemaker, calling for a
new, official municipal flag, was passed by council Monday. Shoemaker, along
with councillors Susan Myers and Judy Hupponen, will sit on a committee struck
by council to help unfurl the flag process. "We don't really have an official
flag," Shoemaker told council, pointing out some miniature Sault Ste. Marie
flags sport the city's crest against a blue background while others have the
Sault's "Naturally Gifted" brand against a green background. "We need an
official flag, right now we have two versions of a flag," Myers said in
agreement. There was no official timeline given or discussion of the cost of the
flag project at Monday's meeting.
Wording of the original resolution
called for proposals for a new municipal flag until December 31, 2015.
Councillors decided, however, to go in-house and consult designers who work for
the city in regard to a design for a new municipal flag. The resolution noted
the new municipal coat of arms is in the final stages of approval from the
Office of the Governor General of Canada and that the new coat of arms will mean
a necessary change in the Sault’s municipal flag.
The city’s
municipal crest (which is not an official coat of arms) is currently shown on
the city’s existing municipal flag on a light blue background. The city’s new
official coat of arms, along with a corresponding coat of arms for the Sault
Ste. Marie Police Service, was unveiled in March, 2014.
located by Rob
Raeside, 17 August 2015
According to
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/sault-ste-marie-new-flag-1.3419886,
the new flag has been adopted.
Dave Fowler, 31 January 2016
The ratio of the flag seems to be 9:16 but I’d expect 1:2 to match the
national flag and most Canadian subnational flags. The logo that features on the
flag was uses on the 2012 centennial flag. It is very dark
blue and wavy along
top and bottom, suggesting a waving flag, and with a simple logo centered on
the flag showing two hills and a large upright maple leaf
(stylized as on the national flag) and two large wavy shapes at the bottom of
this, all enclosed in a disc but both the leaf and the waves considerably
overflowing it at the fly side.
Except for the flag background, everything else
(i.e., all other elements of the logo), are filled not in solid colors but in
horizontal gradients: the sky goes to pale bluish green to pale greenish
yellow, the leaf goes to golden yellow to reddish orange, the upper waves
goes from petrol blue to bluish teal, and the the thick contour line
separating all elements goes from dark to light brownish green/golden.
António Martins-Tuválkin,
5 February 2016
Several images confirm the wavy flag design:
https://vmcdn.ca/f/files/sootoday/images/city-of-sault-ste-marie
https://vmcdn.ca/f/files/sootoday/images/city-of-sault-ste-marie
https://vmcdn.ca/f/files/sootoday/images/city-of-sault-ste-marie
https://vmcdn.ca/f/files/sootoday/images/city-of-sault-ste-marie
http://vmcdn.ca/f/files/sootoday/images/city-of-sault-ste-marie
(source:
https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/mayor-provenzano-wants-no-credit-for-this-8-photos-278358)
Esteban Rivera, 30 July 2016
The flag is actually designed with the wave in it (i.e., it isn't a rectangle).
However, it is printed on a rectangular banner for cost purposes, but the design of the
flag ends at the gold outlines. The white areas in the top left and bottom right
of the flag actually aren't part of the flag design.
Matthew Shoemaker, 29 July 2016
A second
unofficial flag design has the city’s "Naturally Gifted" brand
motto on a green background, but I found no image of it. The website at
http://cdn.saultonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/sault-ste-marie-naturally-gifted.jpeg include[d] it along with the logo.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 February 2016
image located by
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 February 2016
Based on:
http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/details.asp?c=96220
and
Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18
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 former flag of the City of Sault Ste. Marie has a blue field bearing
in its centre a coat of arms and inscription on a white panel closely bordering
its outlines. The panel is three-fourths the height of the flag; the coat of
arms is half the height of the flag. The upper part of the panel forms a semicircle;
the lower part is irregular, following the base of the coat of arms. The
inscription arches with the top edge of the full half-circle, and reads THE
CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF in black sans-serif letters. The white
ribbon below the shield of the arms has four sections, each bearing one word,
reading SAULT STE. MARIE CANADA in smaller black sans-serif letters.
The simple shield of the arms is nearly triangular, with a horizontal top
and slightly curved sides. It is divided in half horizontally by a yellow band
inscribed OJIBWA KITCHE GUMEENG ODENA in black sans-serif letters.
The section above the yellow band depicts a canal in perspective with
blue water and a three-sided grey perimeter. On either side of the canal are
three hemlock trees; in the background are buildings with a frontal view of
a ship between them, all in white with black details. The section below the
yellow band is divided vertically. The panel on the left is grey with three railroad
rails depicted in cross-section in blue, two over one. The panel on the
right is blue with three narrow evergreen trees in grey in a horizontal row; the
central tree is set half its height lower than the others. Above the shield is a
beaver (Castor canadensis), in white with black details, facing left on a patch
of wood from which extend on either side a branch with four maple leaves in
yellow. They flank the beaver and an imperial crown above it. The crown
has a yellow base, a grey headpiece, and yellow ornamentation, including two
fleurs-de-lis and a cross at the top, all with white and black details. On the
left of the shield stands a First Nations man, on the right a steelworker, both
in white with black details. The First Nations man holds a hatchet in his left
hand and a shield in his right hand—the shield has concentric rings of yellow
and grey. The steelworker holds a smelting rod in yellow. Both stand atop
ornamental scrollwork in yellow, the outer ends flared slightly and the inner
ends touching the lower parts of the shield.
Christopher Bedwell, Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18,
2011
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal was completed in 1895 and operated
commercially until 1987. Re-opened in 1998 to recreational traffic, the
canal is the final link connecting the St. Lawrence River to Lake Superior.
The beaver, the national animal, represents Canada, and the crown refers to
the fact that Canada is a constitutional monarchy. The trees recall the hemlock
and pine forests of the region; the rails symbolize the importance of Sault
Ste. Marie as a manufacturing and commerce centre. The Ojibway (sometimes
known in the U. S. as Chippewa) were the original inhabitants of the
area. Ojibwa Kitche Gumeeng Odena means “Ojibway town next to big body
of water”.
Christopher Bedwell, Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18,
2011
Unknown.
Christopher Bedwell, Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18,
2011
The actual city coat of arms differs slightly
from versions on the current and former flag.
Christopher
Bedwell, Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18,
2011
The old
coat of arms or city crest is believed to have been introduced with the city
incorporated in 1912 but was never officially registered.
located by
Dave Fowler, 17 August 2015
image by
Eugene Ipavec
Source:
Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18
image by Randy Young, 3 February 2016
A green flag bearing a central white disk with the logo on it.
Valentin Poposki,
22 July 2012
