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![[Wilmont, Ontario]](../images/c/ca-on-wi.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 18 April 2017
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The municipality (rural township) of Wilmot (19,223 inhabitants in 2011;
26,372 ha) is located in south-western Ontario.
Wilmot Township was
designated a Crown Reserve following the Canada Act of 1791 which created Upper
and Lower Canada. Following a government survey in 1824, Mennonites from
Waterloo Township and Amish from Europe claimed lots and began clearing roadways
and farms. The Canada Land Company opened the Huron Road through the southern
part of Wilmot Township in 1828. Soon after, Roman Catholics and Lutherans from
Alsace and Germany, Anglicans from the British Isles and others joined the
initial settlers in clearing land and building roads, mills, shops, churches,
schools and villages. The names of Wilmot communities provide great insight into
the pioneers who settled them. We can connect with where they were from, whom
they were and, in at least one instance, the industries therein established:
Baden, Haysviille, Holland Mills, Mannheim, Josephsburg, New Dundee, New
Hamburg, New Prussia, Petersburg, Philipsburg, Pinehill, Punkeydoodle's Corners,
Rosebank, St. Agatha, Shingletown, Waldau, and Wilmot Centre.
http://www.wilmot.ca/ - Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 12 April 2017
The flag consists of the city crest on a Canadian pale.
The flag and arms of Wilmot were inscribed on 2 September 1994 on the Public
Register of Arms, Flags and Badges, Vol. II, p. 349. The announcement of the
Letters Patent was made on 3 December 1994, in Vol. 128, p. 4,584 of the Canada
Gazette.
Blazon
Arms
Or two piles and one pile
reversed gules each charged with an ear of wheat of nine grains or.
Crest
A mural coronet of five merlons azure masoned argent charged with a water wheel
between two garbs or.
Supporters
On two grassy hills intersected by a wavy
pale azure fimbriated argent two lions or each gorged with a coronet erablé
gules and holding in the interior forepaw a lightning flash argent.
Motto
BUILDING A SURE FOUNDATION
Flag
Azure on a Canadian pale argent an
escutcheon of the arms.
Artist Information
Creator(s): Original
concept of Robert D. Watt, Chief Herald of Canada, assisted by the heralds of
the Canadian Heraldic Authority
Painter: Joan Bouwmeester
Calligrapher:
Joan Bouwmeester
http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=1769 - Public
Register of Arms, Flags and Badges
[The image from the Register shows the
flag with proportions 2:3 but the grant describes the flag as a "Canadian pale";
accordingly, the flag, if ever used, must be in 1:2 proportions]
Ivan Sache, 18 April 2017