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"Courtenay is a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in the
province of British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest city (and only
"city") in the area commonly known as the Comox Valley, and it is the
location of the head offices of the Comox Valley Regional District.
Courtenay is just 4 km west of the town of Comox, 7 km northeast of the
Village of Cumberland, 5 km northwest of the unincorporated settlement of
Royston, and 108 km northwest of Nanaimo. It has almost 22,000 residents." -
from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtenay,_British_Columbia.
Official city website:
http://www.city.courtenay.bc.ca
Valentin Poposki, 17 November 2009
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 City of Courtenay is white with the city’s coat of
arms in the centre, three-fourths the height of the flag. The simple shield has
a horizontal top and simply-curved sides forming a wide, pointed, curved “V”
shape, and is divided into four panels, arranged one over two over one. The
shield and the panels are edged in golden yellow. The top panel shows a landscape
of water, depicted by five light-blue horizontal wavy lines on white, with
green peninsulas on either side, above which is a yellow sky with a setting sun
in red with twelve rays extending to the top edge of the shield. Centred on
the water, below the sun, is a fish oriented to the left, coloured by horizontal
bands of red, yellow, and green and outlined in yellow. The centre-left panel
depicts a naturalistic scene with a skier coming down a 45-degree slope, leaning
toward the left. The snow is white, the sky light blue, the trees green, the
skis red, the ski poles green, and the skier’s pants light blue, hat green, and
shirt striped red and white. The centre-right panel shows a naturalistic scene
of a lake in light blue amid mountains with white snow and green trees, with
a yellow sky above. The panel at the base contains the Canadian flag, but
with bars of equal width red-white-red, and the lower part obscured by the
curve of the ribbon. Above the shield are three white flowers with green leaves, detailed and edged in golden yellow. Curved below the shield is a red ribbon
inscribed CITY OF COURTENAY in white serif letters.
Alison Wilkes, Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18,
2011