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The village flag is shown on an official document, which photo can be seen on a Flickr website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiless/2816332002.
The Village of Wellington no longer exists as a separate entity; it is part of the municipality of Prince Edward County, but in the latter days of its existence as an independent village, the above were its coat-of-arms and flag.
On the scanned document it is written: "Painting to accompany Letters Patent
grating Arms and a Flag to the Village of Wellington as entered in Volume 11,
page 241 of the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada this 2nd day
of June 1993.
The flag is a rectangular banner of the arms, which are
argent, on three piles gules, two in chief and one in base, a crown or.
According to Flickr user Kenneth Moyle, also at http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiless/2816332002, the overall effect is a white letter "W" suggested on a red background with crowns showing on each of the middle triangular gaps.
Valentin Poposki, 23 December 2008 and António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 February 2010
The flag and arms of Wellington were inscribed on 2 June 1993 on the Public
Register of Arms, Flags and Badges, Vol. II, p. 241. The announcement of the
Letters Patent was made on 6 November 1993, in Vol. 127, p. 3,406 of the Canada
Gazette.
Blazon
Arms
Argent three piles one
issuant from base gules each charged with a Loyalist civil coronet or.
Crest
Rising out of a mural coronet gules masoned or charged with a ducal coronet also
or a demi horse argent crined, queued and unguled or holding in the forelegs a
cornucopia or mouth downwards displaying tomato plants and pea vines fructed
proper.
Supporters
On a grassy mound rising above barry wavy azure and
argent two marine lions gules queued argent each gorged with a Loyalist civil
coronet or and holding a staff argent flying therefrom to the dexter a Union
banner tempore 1783 on the dexter side and on the sinister side a banner of the
arms of the village flying to the sinister.
Motto
A HAVEN ON THE SHORE
Flag
A banner of the arms.
Artist Information
Creator(s): Original
concept of Robert D. Watt, Chief Herald of Canada, assisted by the heralds of
the Canadian Heraldic Authority
Painter: Joan Bouwmeester
Calligrapher:
Joan Bouwmeester
http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=1657 - Public
Register of Arms, Flags and Badges
Ivan Sache, 15 April 2017