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![[Kamouraska flag]](../images/c/ca-qckam.gif)
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by Masao Okazaki, 21 December 2020See also:
Photos of this flag were posted in August 2019 by Luc Vartan Baronian in the
FOTW Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/flagsoftheworld/permalink/2837497862931584
I downloaded a shield from the city's website (http://www.kamouraska.ca/images/upload/armoiries-et-logos-1-1565098472.jpg)
and used it to produce my best guess drawing of the flag.
The flag appears to be white with two blue vertical stripes of different widths near the hoist and the fly, and the shield in the centre.
Masao Okazaki, 21 December 2020
The municipality of Kamouraska (616 inhabitants in 2016; 4,385 ha) is located
170 km north-east of Quebec.
The domain of Kamouraska was established on
the southern shore of the Saint-Lawrence 15 July 1674 by Louis de Buade de
Frontenac (1622-1698), Governor of New France (1672-1682; 1689-1698).
The
domain was named for the small river that waters it. Louis-François Richer dit
Laflèche (1818-1898), 2nd Bishop of Trois-Rivières (1870-1898, claims that he
toponym Kamouraska is derived from an Algonquin word meaning "a place where
rushes grow near the water".
The first lord of Kamouraska, Olivier Morel
(1640-1716), lord of La Durantaye since 29 October 1672, was commander of one of
the six companies of Navy Infantry stationed on Quebec. Morel lived in Quebec
with his family and did not care for the settlement and development of his
domain, except a porpoise fishery he had set up one year before.
Kamouraska was acquired in 1680 by Charles Aubert de la Chesnaye (1632-1702),
Lord of Rivière-du-Loup and then the most affluent businessman in New France.
Aubert used for years his two domains to illegally trade furs with natives.
Kamouraska was land surveyed only in 1692 and plots offered to colonists two
years later. Only one inhabitants was recorded in 1693.
Aubert was succeeded
in 1700 by his son, Louis Aubert du Forillon. The first church, dedicated to
Saint Louis (King of France Louis IX), was built in 1709 while the parish of
Kamouraska was canonically erected in 1714.
The domain of Kamouraska was
acquired in 1723 by Louis-Joseph Morel de La Durantaye, a son of Olivier Morel,
who settled the manor with his family, being the first lord residing in
Kamouraska.
Joseph Bouchette, Surveyor General of Lower Canda, visited
Kamouraska in 1813, describing a wealthy, active domain inhabited by more than
5,000 and wisely ruled by Pascal Taché (1757-1830), lord since 1790.
Once a
regional capital, Kamouraska, located 6 km from the railway, declined with the
inauguration of the stations of Saint-Pascal (1857) and Rivière-du-Loup (1860).
The today's municipality of Kamouraska covers only a small part of the
former feudal domain, which was subsequently split to form the municipalities of
Saint-Pascal, Saint-Denis de la Bouteillerie, Saint-Philippe-de-Néri,
Sainte-Hélène and Saint-Germain.
http://www.kamouraska.ca
Municipal website
Louis-Paschal-Achille
Taché, Pascal Taché's grandson, married on 1834 Joséphine-Éléonore
d’Estimauville (1816-1893). The wife soon left his drunkard and violent husband
and settled with her two children at her mother, in William Hanry (Sorel). She
fell in love there with an American doctor, George Holmes, who decided to kill
Taché. After a failed attempt of poisoning by a young servant, Holmes went to
Kamouraska and killed Taché with a revolver on 31 January 1839. Arrested and
jailed, Joséphine-Éléonore denied any involvement in the murder; accused of the
poisoning attempt, she was released of all charges in 1841. George Holmes fled
to the US, where he was arrested but never extradited to Lower Canada.
The
journalist Georges-Isidore Barthe published in 1896 in Sorel the novel "Drames
de la vie réelle, roman canadian". In 1970, the writer Anne Hébert published the
acclaimed novel "Kamouraska", based on the murder.
http://www.biographi.ca/fr/bio/estimauville_josephine_eleonore_d_12F.html
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
The arms of Kamouraska are "Vert
three reeds or fructed sable a chief wavy azure semy of fleurs-de-lis or.
Beneath the shield a scroll or outlined sable inscribed of the same 'Dieu France
et Marguerite"'.
The motto refers to St. Louis' three passions, his God,
his homeland (France), and his wife (Marguerite de Provence, 1221-1295, married
in 1234).
http://www.kamouraska.ca/page/1564512295/armoiries-et-logos
Municipal
website
The arms form a kind of rebus of the town's name, allegedly
meaning "a place where rushes grow near the water" in Algonquin.
Ivan
Sache, 23 December 2020
