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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 with two wavy white areas along
to 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, for the
said white areas, for the thick contour line separating them, which is light
brownish green/golden, and for the greyish purple lower wave, 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
image located by
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 February 2016
Based on:
http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/details.asp?c=96220
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
This flag is dark
blue with the the city coat of arms on it (which is not an official coat of arms), set on a white area that margins the
coat of arms and the lettering
arched in a semicircle above it that reads "The Corporation of the City of"; the resulting half disc’s diameter is approximately as long as the
flag’s height.
The coat of arms differs from the one in
Wikipedia in details,
coloring, and lettering.
A second
unofficial flag design mentioned 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 includes it along with the logo.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 February 2016
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
