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Saint-François-de-l'Île-d'Orléans (527 inhabitants in 2016; 2,896 ha) forms
the northeastern most part of Orléans Island.
Orléans Island (7,082
inhabitants in 2016; 19,300 ha), located on river Saint-Lawrence, east of Quebec
downtown, is self-styled "Traditional Quebec's microcosm and birth place of
French-speaking people in North America". The island was named by Jacques
Cartier and a tribute to King of France Henry II, Duke of Orléans.
The poet
and singer Félix Leclerc (1014-1988) settled in 1970 in Orléans Island, where
his ancestors had a domain. He composed in 1975 "Le tour de l'île", an ode to
the island and also an independentist manifesto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEpC34NyXA8
Félix Leclerc, Le tour de
l'île
Saint-François was established in 1679 in a part of the island
where wild vines grew profusely, therefore the name of Bacchus Island originally
coined by Cartier. The parish of Saint-François-de-Sales was established in
1714. The municipality of the parish of Saint-François was established in 1855,
to be transformed to the municipality of Saint-François-de-l'Île-d'Orléans on 20
December 2003.
The municipality's civil namesake is François Berthelot, Count
of Jouy and Saint-Laurent, Councillor at the Paris Parliament and lord of
Orléans Island in 1675.
https://toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=380551
Commission de toponymie Québec
Ivan Sache, 29 March 2021
A proposal of flag for Saint-François-de-l'Île-d'Orléans was submitted in
March 2021 by a committee appointed in May 2019 by the Municipal Council.
Named "Point of fertile land moving forward into the estuary", the design uses
graphic elements from the municipal coat of arms, the leek and the traditional
house. The leek is allegorically represented as if it had grown to a tree whose
shade protects the traditional house. The green field represents the fertile
land, while the Saint-Lawrence is represented by the field in "Quebec" blue. The
two oval spots represent île aux Ruaux and île Madame, two islands that are part
of the municipality of Saint-François-de-l'Île-d'Orléans.
The golden outline
represent the foreshore, that is the intertidal zone above water level at low
tide and underwater at high tide. These areas, known as "battures" ("estrans" in
European French) are a significant ecosystemic component of the estuary of the
Saint-Lawrence, highlighted by Félix Leclerc in "Le tour de l'île":
"Et en
juillet
Le fleuve est tiède
Sur les battures"
("And in July
The
river is mild
On the foreshore").
https://www.quebechebdo.com/local/journal-lautre-voix/248940/projet-de-drapeau-municipal-a-saint-francois/
L'Autre Voix, 26 March 2021
The arms of Saint-François-de-l'Île-d'Orléans
are "Quarterly, 1. Or a leek sable, 2. Or a traditional house sable, 3. Or five
strawberries sable in saltire, 4. Or a blue flag (purple iris) sable. A chief
vert a map of Orléans Island of the same fimbriated or in fess. The shield
surmounted by a roaster and leopard sable affronty ensigned by a crown of the
same. Above a scroll or inscribed with the name of the municipality in letters
sable. Below a scroll or inscribed with the French motto 'Contre vents et marées'
[Against Winds and Tides] in letters sable."
Mostly grown in the northern
part of the municipality, leek is the nickname (French, "poireau"; pl., "poireaux")
of the inhabitants of Saint-François-de-l'Île-d'Orléans.
https://msfio.ca/culture-sports-et-loisirs/armoiries/
Municipal website
Image from L'Autre Voix, 26 March 2021
https://www.quebechebdo.com/local/journal-lautre-voix/248940/projet-de-drapeau-municipal-a-saint-francois/
Ivan Sache, 29 March 2021