Saturna Island, British Columbia (Canada)

Capital Regional District

Last modified: 2025-08-30 by rob raeside
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image located by Valentin Poposki, 2 August 2025

• Description of the flag
• Previous flag
• Detail of arms

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• Capital Regional District
• Municipal and County Flags of British Columbia
• British Columbia
• Canada

Description of the flag

Saturna Island is unincorporated community within Capital Regional District and one of 12 Local Trust Areas of Islands Trust. It has a new flag after a public vote chosen among 19 proposed designs. The whole process was passed last summer (2024) and the winning design was announced on 29.08.2024.

Here is the explanation of the design by the author (whose name is not given): "My flag concept is inspired by the way the FAB represents Saturna's place among the Gulf Islands, a humble building standing proud on the sunny yellow banks of East Point, acknowledging shadows of the past, and reflecting like a prism tp cast a light forward into the waters ahead."

Here are other links:
All proposals 1-16: https://www.facebook.com/photo
All proposals 17-29: https://www.facebook.com/photo
Winning design, 2nd and 3rd place: https://www.facebook.com/photo
Winning design already made as a flag: https://www.facebook.com/photo

Valentin Poposki, 2 August 2025

Previous flag

image by Michael Halleran, 14 June 2012

Saturna Island is the southernmost of the Gulf Islands with a permanent population of about 350. The economy is based on tourism and agriculture (chiefly vineyards and sheep). They adopted a flag echoing the Spanish discovery of the island (named for the Spanish naval schooner Santa Saturnina) with a yellow cross on a red field bearing a badge in the upper quadrant of the fly. The attached photos show the flag flying from the Saturna Island Heritage Centre in the Fog Horn Building at East Point and a detail of the badge. Which can be seen as based on the Spanish Arms with local symbolism added (a domestic sheep, orca, wild goat, eagle – albeit heraldic rather than proper – and wine tankard) with two trees as supporters. The flags are produced on island generally with a hand painted badge, although I am told that there is one with an appliqué and embroidered badge for the use of the island’s cutter.
Michael Halleran, 14 June 2012

Detail of arms

image by Michael Halleran, 14 June 2012