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![[L'Ange-Gardien]](../images/c/ca-qcang2.gif)
image by Olivier
Touzeau,
5 June 2020See also:
From the municipal website:
The municipality of L'Ange-Gardien (5,464 inhabitants in 2016; 22,415 ha) is located 20 km north-east of Gatineau and 40 km north-east of Ottawa. The municipality was established in 1979 as the merger of the former municipalities of Buckingham-Ouest and Buckingham Canton and of the former parish of L'Ange-Gardien.
Ivan Sache, 21 June 2019
A new flag is in use since the adoption of a new logo in August 2018:
https://municipalitedelangegardien.com/?p=1106
See the agency Trinergie
proposal at:
https://trinergie.ca/portfolio/ange-gardien-logo-branding/
Flag
officially in use in 2019 at
https://www.facebook.com/MunicipaliteLangeGardien/photos/a.170786690254718/416784832321568/?type=3&theater
Olivier Touzeau, 5 June 2020
![[L'Ange-Gardien]](../images/c/ca-qcang.gif)
image by Ivan Sache,
21 June 2019
The previous flag of L'Ange-Gardien is vertically divided green-yellow by a blue
curved stripe. This symbolizes Rivière du Lièvre (Hare's River) crossing the
municipal territory and highlights the two banks on which the town is
established. Blue and green represent water and the natural environment.
The green part is charged with two yellow wheat spikes, representing
agriculture, while the yellow part is charged with four green firs,
representing forestry.
The white "hyphen" in the center represents unity of
all inhabitants of the town.
https://municipalitedelangegardien.com/?page_id=51, Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 21 June 2019
The description on the municipal website uses "trait d'union", that is,
typographically speaking "a hyphen". However, "trait d'union" has a more general
meaning in French, being used as a metaphor for "link" or "bond". This secondary
meaning was probably intended in the official description, whatever the graphic
representation of the link is.
A literal description could "the infinity
symbol crossed by the blue stripe", which would completely blur the intended
meaning of the symbol.
Ivan Sache, 22 June 2019
Flag shown at
https://municipalitedelangegardien.com/?page_id=51
Flag in official use
in July 2018:
https://municipalitedelangegardien.com/?p=950
Olivier Touzeau,
5 June 2020