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Cardston, Alberta (Canada)

Cardston County

image located by Masao Okazaki, 1 January 2021, and based on photograph by Darrell Neuman, 13 March 2011

Municipal information
Description of the flag
Heraldic flag
Previous flags

See also:

External Links:

Municipal website

Municipal Information

About the town:

Cardston is a town in southwest Alberta, Canada. Cardston was settled in 1887 by Mormons from Utah Territory who travelled to Alberta in one of the century's last wagon migrations. The official founder of the town is Charles Ora Card, after whom the town is named. It has 3,452 inhabitants - Source: Wikipedia: Cardston, Alberta.

Valentin Poposki, 29 January 2010

Description of the flag

The flag of the Town of Cardston features a Mormon Temple along with a horse-drawn carriage. The blue-colored Canadian Rocky Mountains on the flag are contrasted with a blue and white outline of the Mormon Temple.
Darrell Neuman, 13 March 2011

According to this page from the town's website, Cardston still uses this flag. However, the city is considering making changes to the town flag.
https://www.cardston.ca/flag-of-cardston
Masao Okazaki, 1 January 2021

This flag has been in use since the Remington Carriage Museum was established in Cardston. It is a depiction of the Town logo on a white field. When the Carriage Museum was established, the Town logo was updated to include a carriage and two horses, representing the Museum and the heritage of horse drawn carriages in Cardston. Examples of flags that Cardston flew prior to the introduction of the Horse and carriage can been seen in the photo gallery at the bottom of this page. This flag has been in use since sometime in the early to mid 1990s.
Source: https://www.cardston.ca/flag-of-cardston
Masao Okazaki, 7 February 2021

Heraldic flag

image located by Dave Fowler, 25 December 2019

The recent update to the https://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=3173 page shows a new flag for Cardston, a banner of arms blazoned "Or a carriage wheel within an orle Azure surmounted at each angle by a billet Argent".

The gold background symbolizes the town’s agricultural success. The carriage wheel refers to the settlers’ travel by wagon train, and also to the town’s Remington Carriage Museum. The blue band and white rectangles represents the water of Lee Creek used in irrigation canals and the communities serviced by the said canals. As well, the rectangles evoke playing cards, and thus represent the Card family, the leading family of the original settlers, and make a canting reference to the town’s name.
located by Dave Fowler, 25 December 2019

The gold background symbolizes the town's agricultural success in the arid Southern Alberta landscape, an area previously deemed unfit for farming. The carriage wheel refers to the early Cardston settlers' travel to the Lee Creek Valley by wagon train, and also to the town's Remington Carriage Museum. The blue band represents the water of Lee Creek used in irrigation canals constructed by the early Cardston settlers, and the white rectangles (know traditionally as 'billets' in heraldry) represent the communities serviced by the irrigation canals. As well, the rectangles evoke playing cards, and thus represent the family of Cardston's Founder, and leader of the first settlers in Cardston, Charles Ora Card, and make a canting reference to the town’s name, "Card's-Town".
Source: https://www.cardston.ca/flag-of-cardston
Masao Okazaki, 7 February 2021

Previous flags

Several other flags have been used by Cardston (https://www.cardston.ca/flag-of-cardston):

image located by Masao Okazaki, 10 February 2021

No further information is available about these flags.
Masao Okazaki, 10 February 2021