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image by Masao Okazaki, 1 January 2022
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The Town of Creston has three flags. Two were granted in 2008, but in everyday use is a Canadian style flag blue-white-blue with town coat of arms on the white field.
https://www.facebook.com/TownofCrestonBC/photos/4187011778009249
Valentin Poposki, 27 December 2021
The coat of arms appears larger on the flag in the photograph at
https://www.facebook.com/TownofCrestonBC/photos/3811054375604993
Masao Okazaki, 29 December 2021
image by Darrell Neuman, 1 June 2011
The flag of Creston, B.C. features a white swan on a blue background.
According to Bev Caldwell, Executive Assistant, with the town of Creston, the
flowers are apple and cherry blossoms, which represent the agriculture/fruit
industry that the Valley is known for.
This flag was adopted by Council in 2008, with the official unveiling on October
11, 2008. It was designed by Graham Anderson, Cowichan Herald Extraordinary of
the Heraldic Authority (Government House).
Darrell Neuman, 1 June
2011
image located by Valentin Poposki, 27 December 2021
based on
https://www.gg.ca/en/heraldry/public-register/project/1321
The Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges also shows a flag quartered
blue and yellow on a cross quarterly white and blue with a central blue disk
outlined in black bearing a swimming swan.
Valentin Poposki, 27
December 2021