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September 10, 1980

Creating a symbol for NV City

Planning coat of arms for 75th anniversary

By PAT RICH

The idea has been
accepted, the = first
committee has been
formed, and by 1983,
the 75th anniversary of
the City of North
Vancouver, the

municipality should
have an official coat of
arms.

City council in a policy
meeting, last week, voted
unanimously ino favour of
establishing a coal of arms
for the City and established a
committee to start work on
the project

The idea was first
suggested to the City
August 1&8. by Robert Watt
the curator of the Van
couver Manne Museum
when he appeared as a
delegation and said it was
“tuume for (the City off North
Vancouver to consider some

new symbols.”

Watt, who acted as
heraldic advisor for Rich-
mond when it was granted a
coat of arms last year, said
that North Van should apply
for a coat of arms in order to
have a new symbol for the
municipality's 75th an
niversary.

He referred to the City's
current insigma “as nol a
particularly distinguished
piece of design.”

Applying for a coat of
arms ts a fatrly = straigh-
forward process, Watt said,
but added that the City
should apply now in order to
be sure the new insignia
would be ready for 198 3

Atthe August 18S mecting
Watt presented council with
some suggested designs of
what a coat of arms could

look like

Ato last) weeks policy
meeting owas) quickly
obvious that council

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members were very much in
favour of the idea

“We've never had
anything we can exchange as
a momento,” Alderman
Stella Jo Dean lamented

“lt would be appropriate
to have a symbol that ex-
presses the character of the
City,” Alderman Gary Payne
said

As a first step, council
voted to estabhsh a com.
mittee, consisting of Mayor
Jack Loucks, the City clerk.
and Robert Watt, to oversee
the process of getting a coat
of arms approved

The process for receiving
official approval of a Coat of
arms would procede along
the following lines

Council must first formaitly
petton the Heraldic College
in London, England for a
coatolarms Watt suggested
this should be done before a
final design is approved

A compethbon of some

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other method would be used
to come up with suggested
designs for a coat of arms
and the the committee
would choose the best
design

This design would be
forwarded to the heraldic
college who must give final
approval to the design. Watt
said submissions from
Canada are rarely ordered
changed to any greatextent

Final approval is given,
ands after the necessary
documents are signed, the
City oof North Vancouver
would have its Coat of arms,
ata costot about $3 000

Watt suggests that a
minimum of 13 of 14 months
arc involved in the whole
prowess

So inca little over a year
the residents of the City of
North Vancouver should be
sharing ino a tradition thal
goes back hundreds of years
heraldry

PREPARING FOR
SERIOUS - sailing,
owner of the “Sue
Jaq’’, George
Belanger and _his
crew Ted Adlin and
Ralph Carlson tend
to the final details.
They will be leaving
for the Caribbean
shortly in the 56 ton
ferro-cement _ sail-
boat which was
built in 1969 in Los
Angeles. It is
presently moored at
the Seven Seas
Marina. (Ellsworth
Dickson)

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83 Chesterfield Ave
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