Fernie, British Columbia (Canada)

East Kootenay Regional District

Last modified: 2020-11-21 by rob raeside
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image by Arnaud Leroy, 5 June 2006
Source: Fernie Town Hall

image by Arnaud Leroy, 5 June 2006
Source: Fernie Town Hall

• Description of the flag

See also:

• College of the Rockies
• East Kootenay Regional District
• Municipal and County Flags of British Columbia
• British Columbia
• Canada

Description of the flag

THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF FERNIE

Fernie, British Columbia
Grant of Arms, Supporters, Flags and Badge
December 15, 2003
Vol. IV, p. 341

Description of the first flag: A banner of the Arms; Coat of arms: Azure on a fess Or, its upper edge dancetty, three lozenges Sable;

Image: at Governor-General's website

Description of the second flag: Or the Badge of The Corporation of the City of Fernie, a canton of the Arms; Badge: A lozenge Sable charged with an elk's head in trian aspect Or;

It is not explained why there are two flags. Fernie lies in the mountains of British Columbia.

The shade of yellow on the Fernie flag appears more subdued at https://www.thefreepress.ca/news/time-to-change-the-fernie-flag/, an article about "Time to change the Fernie flag?" in The Free Press.
Fernie Secondary School students ask whether it’s time to modernize the town flag - archived photo

Masao Okazaki, 17 October 2020