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Montreal flags are available in our selection of flags from around the world on sale on our website, AZ flag. The Montreal Pavilion is one of the symbols of the City of Montreal, Canada's second largest city in the province of Quebec.

To discover in our range at the time of purchase: affordable Montreal table flag of 21x14cm or 15x10cm in 100D polyester, small Montreal pavilion with 45x30cm cords with reinforced and sewn edges and large Montreal flag in 150x90cm made of 100D polyester.

What are the origins of the flag of Montreal, the first Quebec city?

This Canadian city flag is composed of a red cross on a white background with a red circle in the centre of the cross and five symbols: four in the cantons, one in the centre, which are the five emblematic plants of the city of Montreal.

This civil flag originates from the Canadian coat of arms and heraldic symbols of this Quebec city. It measures a 2:1 ratio. In heraldry, this flag, which comes from the city's crest, is emblazoned as follows: Argent (white background) on a heraldic cross Gules (red) confined to the first of a fleur-de-lis Azure (blue), then a rose Gules slipped (red), leaved and pointed green, then a thistle in bloom Purpure (violet) and to the fourth of a clover Vert (green) with in the centre a white pine tree Or (yellow).

The cross and the five plants represented as a badge on the flag tell us about the history of Canada and especially the history of Montreal and Quebec. The choice of the red cross on a white background is not insignificant as it recalls the founding of the city by the French settlers who named it Ville-Marie and the importance of Christianity in the construction of this city. Indeed, it is the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal, a group of Catholics who are at the origin of this fortified city of New France that was considered at the time as a bastion for religious education.

What do the five plants on the Montreal flag represent?

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The five plants have special meanings related to the Montreal population, for example, white pine represents the country's Aboriginal people: the Aboriginal people of Canada, composed of 64% Amerindians, 30% Métis and 4% Inuit.

This detail was added long after the first adoption of the flag, as it is only since 2017 (the city's 375th anniversary) that the symbol of the yellow white Scots pine, a tree of peace for the natives, has been added to the centre of the flag.

The four original plants in the canton were placed on the city's coat of arms as what is called "a heraldic piece of furniture": a stylized symbolic element placed on the shield that is not a room or a partition that is placed alone in the centre of the place of the fabric it adorns. Here, each plant represents one of Montreal's first inhabitants: the European settlers in fact. The fleur-de-lis of the Bourbons for the first French settlers in Montreal, the rose of the Lancaster house for the English, the thistle for the Scots and the clover for the Irish.

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