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![[flag of Cochrane]](../images/c/ca-ab-co2.gif)
image by Masao Okazaki, 7 January 2025See also:
The municipality appears to use now a
modified version of the logo, much more faithful to the monument.
https://www.cochrane.ca/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=320 - Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2017
The current version of the logo:
https://calgary.citynews.ca
Photos of flag with this version of the
logo:
2024 photo:
https://www.vmcdn.ca/f/files/cochranetoday
2022 photo:
https://www.vmcdn.ca/f/files/cochranetoday
Masao Okazaki, 7
January 2025
![[Cochrane, Ontario]](../images/c/ca-ab-co-l.gif)
image located by
Masao Okazaki, 7 January 2025
![[flag of Cochrane]](../images/c/ca-ab-co.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 29 April 2017
The Town of Cochrane changed its flag. I think it happened last year (2009)
when the new logo was introduced. The new flag shows a logo on a white
background. The logo consists of a rider on a horse faced right, and "cochrane /
HOW THE WEST IS NOW" below. Photo of it can be seen here:
http://www.cochraneeagle.com/2010/09/firefighters-to-build-homes-in-haiti
The Town:
"Cochrane is a town in the Canadian province of Alberta.
The town is located 18 km west of the Calgary city limits along Highway 1A. With
a population of 15,424 (2009), Cochrane is the second largest town in Alberta
and one of the fastest growing communities in Canada. It is part of Calgary's
Census Metropolitan Area (1,107,200 in 2006) and a member community of the
Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP). The town is surrounded by Rocky View
County." - from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane,_Alberta
Official website:
http://www.cochrane.ca/municipal/toc/webcms.nsf/0/955252F10CE6EC0187257610006AFC69?opendocument
Valentin Poposki, 4 October 2010
The logo represents the Men of Vision sculpture, the town's landmark.
Commissioned by Alberta Culture between 1976-77, and after scouring Alberta
looking at more than 30 different sculptors, the final decision on who would
etch out a place for themselves in the Cochrane history books landed on the
shoulders of Malcolm James MacKenzie, or “Mac” as he was known in the ranching
community. MacKenzie lived in Cochrane and Banff throughout his life. The
Cochrane Ranch Historic site was named a protected historic plot of land in 1977
by Alberta Culture and the Men of Vision statue was completed and placed in its
final resting place atop the Ranch hill overlooking the community May 21, 1979.
The statue's journey from conception to completion took roughly three years
according to records from Alberta Culture, including a transatlantic journey
after departing its birthplace at one of the most prolific bronze foundries in
all of England. MacKenzie's original creation, a three-foot-tall wax maquette
(scale model), was cast in plaster and flown across the Atlantic to the Morris
Singer Foundry, originally located in Frome, England, and currently located
between Basingstoke and Alton. Morris Singer also created the famous lions that
guard Trafalgar Square in London.
http://www.cochraneeagle.com/Men-of-Vision-celebrating-35th-20140522 -
Cochrane Eagle, 22 May 2014
In 1978, when the iconic statue, Men of
Vision was unveiled, there were more people in attendance than the entire
population of Cochrane. At the time the population of Cochrane was 1,200 people
and the event was very big deal. Unfortunately, 35 years later, only 50 to 60
people, mainly friends and family of Judy MacKenzie and Wendy Hawes, were in
attendance as they unveiled and honoured the statue on Aug. 3. Malcolm Mac
MacKenzie was the artist who made the Men of Vision and throughout the years
rumours have circulated that MacKenzie made it to look like Senator Matthew
Cochrane or other local cowboys. “He purposely did not make it to look like
anybody,” said Judy MacKenzie, widow of the artist. “He wanted it generic so no
one could claim there was a likeness. He was tickled to death when people came
to him and said that it looked like their uncle or their grandfather, which is
what he wanted. A lot of people have claimed that it is a
likeness of
Senator Cochrane or Clarence Copithorne, but it isn’t. It could be anybody.”
Just like 35 years ago, a rider on a horse pulled the rope to unveil the bronze
statue. Don Edge unveiled the statue in 1978, and Judy MacKenzie and Wendy
Hawes, Clarence Copithorne’s daughter, pulled the rope while mounted on horses
to reveal the statue this past Sunday.
http://www.cochranetimes.com/2014/08/07/reliving-unveiling-of-men-of-vision
- Cochrane Times, 7 August 2014
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2017
![[flag of Cochrane]](../images/c/ca-ab-co1.gif)
image by Arnaud Leroy, 17 April 2006
Source: Town of Cochrane
