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Paper flag
![[scan of paper flag of Pitt Meadows]](../images/c/ca-bc-pm.jpg)
image contributed by Dean McGee, 11 January 2006
Source: Scan of flag (see below)
Flying flag
![[flag of Pitt Meadows flying]](../images/c/ca-bc-pm1.jpg)
image contributed by Dean McGee, 11 January 2006
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The flag designed by the heralds was not adopted by the district. One councilor decided that the flag should say "DISTRICT OF PITT MEADOWS" on it.
The current flag has "DISTRICT OF PITT MEADOWS" in an arch in capitals that resemble Times New Roman, above the full achievement of arms. Note that in the full achievement, one supporter is a heron, and the other a crane -- very tough to tell apart when they are both coloured gold.
The letters should be in an arch.
Dean McGee, 2 November 2005
The image is of a paper flag, scanned directly (which explains the staples at the hoist). Notice that the cloth flag is 1:2, but the paper flag is more like 2:3. Local flag manufacturers (mostly The Flag Shop) make most of their flags in 1:2, but desk flags (maybe different manufacturers) make most desk flags in 4"x6" (Pitt municipal hall also sent me a 4"x6" cloth desk flag of the old design.
About the arms:
The shield shows a border (orle) to represent the dykes which protect the low-lying community from the Pitt and Fraser Rivers. The horizontal bars represent the railway line which goes through the middle of Pitt Meadows. The passenger train (WestCoast Express) which runs from the Northeast suburbs (incl. Pitt) uses purple and yellow colours; this /may/ have influenced the colouring of the arms --- also, Pitt is one of the last local communities to be granted a coat of arms, and most colour combinations were taken.
The motto comes from the early, quasi-heraldic emblem, and the waterbirds supporting
the arms are appropriate for a community built on a floodplain, and the plants
in the compartment are blueberries and cranberries, which are grown commercially
in the area (and thrive in boggy conditions).
Dean McGee, 11 January 2006
![[former flag of Pitt Meadows]](../images/c/ca-bc-pm_old.gif)
The former flag has the quasi-heraldic emblem on a White bedsheet.
Dean McGee, 2 November 2005
![[former flag of Pitt Meadows]](../images/c/ca-bc-pm_hrld.gif)
Pitt Meadows, British Columbia
Grant of Arms, Supporters, Flag and Badge
March 15, 2004
Vol. IV, p. 364
Description: Purpure within an orle embattled outward, a heron's head erased Or;
Image: at Governor-General's website
The coat of arms is: Purpure a fess couped bretessed and voided within
an orle embattled outward Or; Supporters: Dexter a heron, sinister a sandhill
crane, each Or, beaked and membered Purpure, gorged with a wreath of maple
leaves Gules and dogwood flowers Argent, standing on a mound of earth Or
set with cranberry and blueberry sprigs proper issuant from barry wavy Azure
and Argent
The flag is not a banner of the arms and it is thus blazoned
"Purpure within an orle embattled outward, a heron's head erased Or"
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 November 2005