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The municipality of Beaconsfield (19,505) inhabitants in 2011; 2,450 ha) is
located on the Island of Montreal.
Beaconsfield originates in a
concession granted on 18 May 1678 by the Order of St. Sulpice, then lord of the
island of Montreal, to Jean Guenet, who named the domain as Beaurepaire. Guenet
was an influential trader from Ville-Marie and the tax collector for the lords
of the Island.
In the 1870s, Mr. Menzies renamed the place as Beaconsfield,
as a tribute to England's Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, created the Earl of
Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria in 1876. The town of Beaconsfield was
incorporated on 4 January 1910.
http://www.beaconsfield.ca/ - Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 28
March 2017
I took a photo of this flag in 1999 in a Montreal Urban Community building.
Luc Baronian, 9 May 2005
The arms (a beacon standing in a field) are a canting allusion to the name
Beaconsfield. Green is a symbol of fertility. The crest is made of a castle,
retained from the original insignia previously used and based on the
crest of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield; and of a Canadian civic
crown symbolizing a Canadian municipality. The Latin motto "Forti Nihil
Difficile" (Nothing is Difficult to the Brave), also retained from the
previously used insignia, was the motto of the Earl of Beaconsfield.
http://www.beaconsfield.ca/en/our-city/portrait-and-history - Municipal
website
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) was created Earl of Beaconsfield by
Letters Patent issued on 21 August 1876. The title became extinct after
his death. Disraeli served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1868
and 1874-1880. His arms were:
Arms
Per saltire gules and argent a
castle triple towered in chief of the last two lions rampant in fess sable
and an eagle displayed in base or.
Crest
Issuant from a wreath of oak
proper a castle triple towered argent.
Supporters
Dexter: an eagle or;
Sinister: a lion also or, each gorged with a collar gules pendent therefrom
an escutcheon of the last charged with a tower argent.
Motto
Forti
Nihil Difficile.
http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/beaconsfield1876.htm - Cracroft's Peerage
Photo of the flag
https://twitter.com/ebrunetmtl/status/657213675955163137
Ivan Sache,
28 March 2017