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Mont-Laurier, Quebec (Canada)

Ville de Mont-Laurier

Last modified: 2022-02-26 by rob raeside
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[Mont-Laurier flag] image by Olivier Touzeau, 14 June 2020
 

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City

Mont-Laurier is a town and a municipality in northwest Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentides regions. It is the seat of Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality.
There are 14,000 inhabitants on 590.76 km² of land area, and Mont-Laurier is one of the largest municipalities in Quebec.
Mont-Laurier is known as the "Capital of the Haute-Laurentides".
In 2003, Mont-Laurier merged with the neighbouring towns Des Ruisseaux and Saint-Aimé-du-Lac-des-Îles, with the name Mont-Laurier being chosen for the combined municipality. Following a 2004 demerger referendum vote, Saint-Aimé-du-Lac-des-Îles left Mont-Laurier in 2006 to be reconstituted as an independent municipality.
Olivier Touzeau, 14 June 2020


Logo flag

In 2005, a new logo was adopted.
The current flag is white with the logo:
https://www.facebook.com/1054835144658412/photos/pcb.1362061833935740/1362060470602543/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/Villedemontlaurier/photos/a.10155763326298403/10156620055818403/?type=3&theater
Olivier Touzeau, 14 June 2020


Flag with arms

[Mont-Laurier flag] image by Olivier Touzeau, 14 June 2020

The city also has a white flag with coat of arms, in use together with the current logo flag. See:
https://www.facebook.com/Villedemontlaurier/photos/a.10155763326298403/10156451384398403/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/Villedemontlaurier/photos/a.10155763326298403/10156566959883403/?type=3&theater

The coat of arms of Mont-Laurier are or, a bend raguly gules, between a moose's head cabossed sable surmounted by a star azure, and a mountain of three hillocks sable on a fess wavy couped azure.
(d'or, à la bande écotée de gueules, accompagnée en chef d'une rencontre d'orignal de sable surmontée d'une étoile d'azur ; en pointe d'une montagne à trois coupeaux de sable soutenue d'une onde alésée d'azur)
The motto of the town is "Laurus elationis praemium" (Lift the laurels of reward) and the shield is supported by laurel branches.
More (in French) about the coat of arms here:
http://www.villemontlaurier.qc.ca/DATA/DOCUMENT/Interpretation des armoiries.pdf
Olivier Touzeau, 14 June 2020

From http://www.villemontlaurier.qc.ca/DATA/DOCUMENT/Interpretation des armoiries.pdf:
The arms were designed in March 1951 by the Drouin Genealogical Institute, upon request of the Municipal Council.
The raggy bend, in width one fourth of the shield's width, represents timber industry, the region's main industry.
The moose's head represents Moose's Fall, at the origin on Mont-Laurier.
The region's natural environment is represented by the mountain and th river.
The Latin motto reads "Laurel awards Nobleness".
Ivan Sache, 15 June 2020


Previous flag

[Mont-Tremblant flag] image by Olivier Touzeau, 14 June 2020

I reproduced this flag from a photo in Jim croft's collection. The color looked black, but it could have been a very dark green. Translated from city documentation:

The logo on the white field reproduces the letters M and L for Mont-Laurier, in a single movement, as a ribbon with looping extremities. Its exterior line and interior space represent a mountainous landscape. Through its color, the logo expresses the dignity and strength of the forests of Quebec's North.
Luc Baronian, 22 May 2005

The former logo of Mont-Laurier was actually dark green, see
http://www.villemontlaurier.qc.ca/DATA/DOCUMENT/logos_nouveau_ancien.pdf
Olivier Touzeau, 14 June 2020


Agglomération de Mont-Laurier

The Agglomeration is a municipal structure equivalent to a municipalité régionale de comté, within the Montérégie region. It was established in 2006.

It includes:
Ville de Mont-Laurier
Municipalité de Saint-Aimé-du-Lac-des-Îles

It does not appear to have any unique symbology, and shares that of Ville de Mont-Laurier.
Dave Fowler, 22 February 2022