Montreal Coat of Arms
The coat of arms of Montreal has existed in its current form since 1938. It replaced an older version from 1833, which was designed by Jacques Viger , the city's first mayor. Today it is mainly used for ceremonial purposes, for everyday use in official traffic there has been a stylized logo since 1981 .
description
The bottom tapered and a green wreath of maple leaves surrounded coat of arms is a broad red cross four silver divided fields. These contain floral symbols that stand for the most important historical population groups of Montreal: a blue fleur-de-lys of the Bourbons represents the French or French- Canadians , a red rose of the House of Lancaster the English , a purple thistle the Scots and a green three-leaf shamrock the Irish . The Weymouth pine in the center of the coat of arms represents the five tribes of the Iroquois Confederation. A Canadian beaver serves as a helmet ornament , the city motto "Concordia salus" (well-being through harmony) is on a banner .
history
The city's first coat of arms was designed by Jacques Viger and approved by the city council in 1833. It showed a red St. Andrew's cross on a silver coat of arms . Symbols of the four population groups were depicted on the fields in between. Above the red rose of the English, left (heraldic right) the thistle of the Scots, right (heraldic left) the shamrock of the Irish. In the lower field, a beaver represented the French who originally settled in the area and traded in fur.
In 1938, the city council requested an adaptation of the coat of arms to better reflect the population of Montreal. The St. Andrew's Cross was replaced by a cross, which at the time could stand for the Cross of St. George as well as for the Christian values of the French Catholics who founded the mission settlement Ville-Marie in 1642 . The beaver had meanwhile become a symbol for the whole of Montreal and the hard work of the city dwellers, so it no longer symbolized the French-Canadian population alone. In its place was the fleur-de-lys as a symbol of the descendants of the original French settlers.
The pine representing the indigenous people was added in September 2017.
logo
In an effort to modernize its appearance, the city of Montreal introduced a logo for everyday government traffic in 1981, while the coat of arms has since been reserved for formal occasions and ceremonies. The logo consists of the name of the city in the French spelling with acute (also for English-language documents), the letters are written in the hybrid font Rotis designed by Otl Aicher . On the right edge there is a stylized rosette composed of four hearts. There are variants with different colors for printing purposes.
Web links
- Coat of arms, flag and symbols of Montreal (French)
- Coat of Arms, Flag and Symbols of Montreal (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Montreal adds Iroquois symbol to flag, strips British general of street name. CBC, September 13, 2017, accessed September 13, 2017 .