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Olivier Touzeau, 7 June 2020See also:
Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot (1,700 inhabitants, 71.4 km²)
Olivier Touzeau, 7 June 2020
White flag with coat of arms and name below (pictures taken in 2009 and 2011)
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Olivier Touzeau, 7 June 2020
"Per fess, 1a. Azure a ram issuant or, 1b. Azure a tree half-Canadian hemlock
half-maple proper, 2. Azure a half-sun or charged with a plow argent and gules
and surmounted by a bull's head sable and argent. The shield surmounted by a
crown or. The shield supported by two branches made of two pale leaves vert
separated by a fleur-delis argent.
Beneath the shield a scroll or inscribed
with the motto "Respect, Liberté, Travail" in letters sable.
The ram
nascent comes from the arms of Claude de Ramezay, whose descendant Hélène de
Ramezay was once lord of Sainte-Hélène.
The mixed tree represents the main
sources of income for the parish's founders: Canadian hemlock's bark, potash and
sugar maple.
The sun is a source of energy for work and light for spirit. The
plow and the bull represent Sainte-Hélène's main industries, agriculture and
cattle-breeding.
The supporters recall the inhabitants' French origin and
their belonging to the Quebec and Canada communities.
The golden crown
represents the parish's patron saint, St. Helena.
http://www.saintehelenedebagot.com/municipalite/historique/
Municipal
website
Claude de Ramezay (1659-1724), Governor of Trois-Rivières
(1690-1699) and Montreal (1704-1714), served as interim Governor of
Nouvelle-France from 1714 to 1716. He let build Castle Ramezay, one of
Montreal's historical landmark.
Ramezay was the descendant of the Ramsay
family, which probably emigrated from Scotland to Burgundy (France) in the late
15th - early 16th century.
http://www.biographi.ca/fr/bio/ramezay_claude_de_2F.html
Dictionnaire
biographique du Canada, Vol. II (1701-1740)
The canting arms of Claude de
Ramezay are featured on a legal document issued on 1 June 1701, which confirmed
his nobility title, as "Azure a ram issuant or between four bendlets two gules
and two or four stars or". This approximate description stirred up a controversy
among Canadian heraldists, who did not agree on the exact location of the
bendlets and stars. The modern version of the arms of Claude de Ramezay would be
"Azure a ram issuant or between two bendlets gules and two mullets in bend all
within two bendlets between two mullets in bend sinister or".
https://www.heraldicscienceheraldique.com/les-armoiries-de-claude-de-ramezay.html
Auguste Vachon. Les armoiries de Claude de Ramezay.
Ivan Sache,
12 June 2020