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![[flag of Saint Raymond]](../images/c/ca-qcsry.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 28 September 2010See also:
The municipality of Saint-Raymond (9,234 inhabitants in 2006; 685 sq.
km) is located in the Portneuf MRC, north of the town of Quebec. Founded on
25 May 1842 in the Gosford Township, the Saint-Raymond parish was divided
in 1898 into two municipalities (Paroisse de Saint-Raymond and Village,
later Ville, de Saint-Raymond) , that were eventually reunited on 1995
under the name of Saint-Raymond.
On 22 July 2010, the "Courrier de
Portneuf" shows a photo of the local athlete Éric Lapointe holding the
municipal flag, which is white with the municipal coat of arms surmounting
the writing "VILLE DE SAINT-RAYMOND" in black letters.
http://www.courrierdeportneuf.com/index.asp?s=detail_actualite&id=129032
The coat of arms of Saint-Raymond is "Azure a gusset* gules, dexter a
dove displayed descending or holding in her beak a branch of olive vert
fructed gules, sinister a millrind argent, the gusset charged with a cross
flory or, in base a fess wavy argent. The shield supported by two branches
of maple vert, leaved of the same, slipped and seeded or, crossed per
saltire and tied together by a ribbon gules bearing a scroll or charged
with the motto in Gothic letters "Pax in veritate".
The dove with
the olive branch is a symbol of peace, recalling that the municipality was
named for St. Raymond Nonnatus (1204- 240), a Catalan monk member of the
Mercedarian Order, founded to ransom Christian captives of the Moors The
cross flory recalls the French Canadian Catholics who founded the parish
and the current faith of its citizens. The millrind recalls wooden
industry, the first developed in the region. The fess wavy symbolizes river
Sainte-Anne. The maple branch recalls Canada. The motto "Pax in veritate"
means "Peace inside Truth".
http://www.villesaintraymond.com/straymond.asp?no=24270
*According to
Brian Timms, a gusset is a rare charge, made of "a pall with the chief part
filled in, forming a triangle at the top of the shield, which is joined to
a pale".
Ivan Sache, 28 September 2010
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