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image by Rob Raeside, 5 June 2018
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St. Margaret Sailing Club (Canada)
Estb: 1956. Location: French Village
Harbour, St. Margaret’s Bay, NS.
Burgee: Pennant circa 6:9 (photo image).
White field superimposed by a black cross of St. Margaret centred 3 units from
hoist with arms 1 unit wide. The vertical arm superimposed by a red tuna. Blue
saltire in canton with arms 0.4 units wide.
". . . sometime in the middle
of the winter of 1956, a group of gentlemen met and laid the plans for what was
to become the St. Margaret Sailing Club (SMSC) in Nova Scotia. It was led by a
man who was later to become the first commodore, Dr. Arthur Murphy."
Source:
http://www.canadianyachting.ca/lifestyle/yacht-clubs/2040-st-margaret-sailing-club
"Saint Margaret of Scotland (c. 1045 – 16 November 1093), also known as
Margaret of Wessex, was an Kingdom of England princess and a Queen consort of
Scotland. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland.” Born in exile
in the Kingdom of Hungary, . ."
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Margaret_of_Scotland
Note 1:
"Our burgee, altered from the original thinking, grew after consultation with a
very fine and loveable expert on heraldry. It seemed only right to us that the
Nova Scotia cross of St. Andrew should be prominent. In the upper quadrant,
equally essential, seemed to be the black cross of St. Margaret of Scotland. To
me, this composition looked too stern, too singular. I thought of the many
attributes of our bay and added a red tuna, rampant. A year later, I happened to
meet our heraldry expert. Apologetically I said, “Did we ever send you a St.
Margaret Sailing Club Burgee?” He drew up the right side of his lip, unusual for
him, because as I have said, he was a very fine gentleman. “No” he said, “I’m
told that somebody added a red tuna to it.” “I did,” I said. I never did send
him a burgee."
Murphy, Arthur L. The St Margaret Sailing Club - Its
beginnings. [n.d., n.p.]
Note 2: "At the time Dr. Murphy designed the
SMSC burgee, tuna farming was a major industry in St. Margaret Bay."
Lee
Myrhaugen, Commodore 2001-2003.
Source: Ms. S. Hawkes, SMSC's Manager, for
the image photograph and notes.
Peter Edwards, 15 May 2018