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Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada)

1:2 image by Eugene Ipavec
Source: Canadian City Flags, Raven 18

Corner Brook
Current Flag
Plain Flag

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Corner Brook

Corner Brook (2006 population: 20,083 CA 26,623) is a city located on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Located on the Bay of Islands at the mouth of the Humber River, the city is the largest population centre in the province outside the Avalon Peninsula. As such, Corner Brook functions as a service centre for western and northern Newfoundland." - from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_Brook

Official website: http://www.cornerbrook.com
Valentin Poposki, 16 June 2010

Current Flag

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.

Design

The flag of the City of Corner Brook has equal vertical bars of royal blue-white-royal blue, a variant of a Canadian pale design, with the municipal coat of arms in the centre nearly the full height of the flag. The simple shield has a horizontal top and simply-curved sides forming a pointed “U” shape. Its central area has three panels. The left and right panels are separated by a wavy vertical blue stripe edged in white on either side; each panel is green with a naturalistic evergreen tree in yellow, with roots showing. The lower panel’s upper edge is an inverted “V” with its point at the centre of the shield; it contains eight wavy horizontal stripes alternating blue over white. The shield’s border has four sections which alternate clockwise from the top centre point white-yellow-white-yellow, with two maple leaves in each section (two at the top of the shield and three on each side) in red outlined in black, points upward. Above the shield is a knight’s helmet and elaborate mantling draping on either side of the shield in green, grey, white, yellow, and red, with black details. Above the helmet, on a torse of white and green, is a naturalistic representation of a Northern Pitcher Plant in green, yellow, and red, growing on a hill.
Scott D. Mainwaring, Canadian City Flags, Raven 18, 2011

Symbolism

Within the shield, green and blue symbolize the forests and waters of the Humber Arm, a part of the Bay of Islands on which the city is located, near the mouth of the Humber River. The wavy stripe flowing down to the tip of the inverted “V” symbolizes the Corner Brook itself, a small stream flowing through the city into the Humber Arm, represented by the wavy stripes in the lower panel. In the right and left panels, the two uprooted Balsam Firs (Abies balsamea, the most common tree in the province), refer to the paper mills central to the city’s economy and history. The four pairs of maple leaves around the border symbolize not only Canada but specifically the four municipal areas which amalgamated into Corner Brook in 1956 (Corner Brook West, Corner Brook East, Curling, and Townsite) and the eight wards of today’s city. The hill is a symbol of a municipality, and the carnivorous Northern Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea), the official flower of Newfoundland and Labrador, represents the province.
Scott D. Mainwaring, Canadian City Flags, Raven 18, 2011

Selection

Unknown.
Scott D. Mainwaring, Canadian City Flags, Raven 18, 2011

Designer

Mayor N. F. Murphy, M.D. The arms were granted by the College of Arms in London, England.
Scott D. Mainwaring, Canadian City Flags, Raven 18, 2011

More about the Flag

The coat of arms was first presented during the official opening of Corner Brook’s city hall in 1956. The City of Corner Brook Act of 1985 specifies that except with express permission granted by resolution of the council, no person other than the council shall assume or use the Coat of Arms or an imitation or resemblance of it and that the official flag of the city may be flown at official places and on official occasions of the city, and at those other places and occasions that the council may approve.
Scott D. Mainwaring, Canadian City Flags, Raven 18, 2011

Plain Flag

1:2 image by Eugene Ipavec
Source: Canadian City Flags, Raven 18

Corner Book has used a flag without the blue bars, in proportions of 1:2, with the municipal coat of arms nearly the full height of the flag centred on a white field.
Scott D. Mainwaring, Canadian City Flags, Raven 18, 2011