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Regina, Saskatchewan (Canada)

image by Peter Orenski, 12 November 2012
based on research and information provided by James Croft and Kevin Harrington

Description of the flag
Coat of Arms
Regina Police Service flag

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Description of the flag

FLAG: The city's new flag combines the principal colours of the shield and key elements from the coat of arms in a dramatic composition. The blue bar represents the endless prairie sky while the gold symbolizes the fields of grain surrounding Regina which play an important role in the city's economy. The Royal Crown, which also appears in the crest, honours Regina's name, status as capital and royal roots. As in the arms, it is granted to the city as a special honour by Her Majesty the Queen on the recommendation of His Excellency the Governor General.
researched by Dov Gutterman - 23 December 1998

Coat of Arms

Source: City of Regina

COAT OF ARMS: The elements of the City's original insignia, dating from 1906, have been reinterpreted in heraldic form as the central part of the new coat of arms. The colours echo the gold of the fields of grain and the prairie sky which lie around and arch above the capital. The buffalo, master of the plains, symbolizes the original riches of the region and honours particular aspects of the life ways of the First Peoples. The golden wheat sheaf represents the role of agriculture in Regina's economy.

CREST (above the Shield): Municipal government is represented using the traditional heraldic symbol, a mural crown, composed of stones and mortar in the City's colours. Above this, honouring Regina's naming for Queen Victoria, and its status as provincial capital, is a representation of the Royal Crown. This is granted to the City as a special honour by Her Majesty as Queen of Canada on the recommendation of His Excellency the Governor General.

SUPPORTERS: These, and the shield, rest on a grassy mound which represents the parks and many green spaces of Regina. On the left is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, a man in the uniform of 1882, the year of the city's foundation. On the right, is a woman, in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniform of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer of the present day. In a general sense, the supporters honour all the men and women whose efforts over the generations have helped create and sustain the city. As well, of course, they celebrate Regina's location as the site of the R.C.M.P. Academy, the historic national training centre of the world famous force.

MOTTO: FLOREAT REGINA. The City's historic motto is continued in the grant of arms. The Latin can be translated as "Let Regina Flourish".
researched by Dov Gutterman - 23 December 1998

Regina Police Service flag

image by Randy Young, 16 March 2015

The flag of the Regina Police Service is a blue field with a red diagonal stripe stretching from the upper hoist to the lower fly. Centered in the fly and overlapping the red stripe is the Service's coat of arms. I did notice in the photographs that the scroll beneath the shield appears to be a lighter blue on the flag, probably in order to set it apart from the darker blue of the field that surrounds it.
Randy Young, 16 March 2015

image by Jens Pattke, 28 August 2013

The agency recently got its official heraldry, and has a flag: http://regina.ctvnews.ca/new-look-for-regina-police-1.885432
Dave Fowler, 27 August 2013