By Staff
February 26th, 2017
BURLINGTON, ON
The Gazette is blessed with readers that have sharp eyes.
Image of the flag used in the tweet from the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.
One of the people following the twitter feed coming out of the office of Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdewell, who pre-announced her visit with a tweet that included an image of Burlington’s flag, thought he spotted a problem with the flag contained in the tweet.
Burlington’s corporate flag.
Burlington actually has two flags. One that has just the word Burlington in blue on a white background.
There is a colour blue that is actually named Burlington blue. You can see it on the rails of The Pier.
The truly observant reader will want to point out that Burlington is a city – it was a town when the Coat of Arms was created.
There is a second flag that has the city’s Coat of Arms along with the motto Stand By
Burlington Coat of Arms.
This “official” flag features two vertical stripes of blue outside a gold square. In the center is a stylized image of Burlington’s Coat of Arms. The arms, as seen in front of City Hall features four symbols to represent the history of the town: a brown cow, sailing ship, beehive and an apple. Underneath is the motto “Stand By”.
Flag with the city Coat of Arms flying outside the fire hall on Fairview.
This is the flag that flies in front of Burlington’s Main Fire Hall on Fairview Street with the bridled heifer proudly in the upper left corner.
Which flag is the correct flag?
The Lieutenant Governor out ranks the fire chief but in this instance it is the fire chief flying the correct flag.
Does Burlington have three official flags? Why was the cow re-moo-ved? Where does the Lieutenant Governor get her information on Ontario’s Best Small City to live in ?
We have no beef with the highest office in the province, however we do want to hear what the Lieutenant Governor has to say for herself.
Stand By.
Not for general consumption: I believe the correct word is kerfuffle. I think the word used, kafuffle, is a slang version that has yet to be recognised by the self-anointed arbiters of the English language like Webster’s and Oxford.
Nothing significant, I just came across this somewhere else recently as well. Keep up the good work in general with this publication.
Editor’s note: We are indebted to you for that bit of erudition. We will change that headline.
The LG probably doesn’t get involved in that level of detail.