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1:2 image by
Eugene Ipavec
Source: Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18
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The flag of the Hamlet of Rankin Inlet bears the image of the old head-frame
of the nickel mine. Not much remains of the mine today, but some equipment,
including the ball mills; occupy a hill near the community power plant. Part of
the old site is now being used for recreation – home to the Rankin Inlet Co-Ed
Softball League.
A large grey building on the southeast side of
Johnston’s Cove is the “Con Shed”. The nickel ore concentrate from the original
mine was pumped into containers in the Con Shed. This building is located on the
southeast side of Johnston’s Cove. From here, the containers were put into ships
and carried to refineries in the south. Today the building is a government
storage facility.
In Rankin, an intense sense of local pride in mining
remains, passed down from the original miners of Nunavut.
Reference:
http://www.rankininlet.ca/rankin_symbol.html
Jens Pattke, 2
October 2013
Rankin Inlet is named for Lt. John Rankin,
of the sloop Furnace, on British explorer Christopher Middleton’s 1741 voyage
seeking the Northwest Passage. The name “Rankin Inlet” was adopted
for the settlement 2 October 1958; the Hamlet of Rankin Inlet incorporated
in January 1975.
Mark S. Ritzenhein, Canadian City Flags,
Raven
18, 2011
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 Hamlet of Rankin Inlet (Kangiqliniq) is a Canadian
pale design of yellow-black-yellow, with a rectangular device in the centre
nearly the full height of the flag and half the width of the central black
square. The device is a grey rectangle bordered in yellow, with a yellow horizontal
band one-eighth of its height at about the lower third. The band divides
the rectangle into upper and lower panels. A narrow black line outlines both
panels. In the upper panel is a silhouette of a mine head (a tall building with
a peaked roof) in white with a window near the top in black. Surmounting
it, half the height of the upper panel, is an inukshuk (traditional native stone
landmark or cairn) in yellow with black details. Both stand on the base of
the upper panel. Surmounting the band and extending into the upper and
lower panels are crossed tools in white with yellow heads and black details,
heads downward—on the left a long-handled miner’s pick, on the right a kakivak
(Inuit tridented fishing spear). On the band are two inscriptions: on the
left MUNICIPALITY OF RANKIN INLET in black sans-serif letters
on three lines, on the right two lines of Inuktitut syllabic characters with the
same meaning, in black.
Mark S. Ritzenhein, Canadian City Flags,
Raven
18, 2011
Unknown.
Mark S. Ritzenhein, Canadian City Flags,
Raven
18, 2011
1:2 image by
Eugene Ipavec
Source: Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18