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1:2 image by
Eugene Ipavec
Source: Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18
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Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016. Also in 2016, the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), the majority of which is within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), had a population of 5,928,040, making it Canada’s most populous CMA. Toronto is the anchor of an urban agglomeration, known as the Golden Horseshoe, in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
Text and image(s) from Canadian City Flags, Raven 18 (2011), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright. Image(s) by permission of Eugene Ipavec.
The flag of the City of Toronto has a medium blue field with a “T”
shape in white. The trunk of the “T” is much wider than its crossbar, and is
divided vertically by a blue bar which extends nearly to the base. The “T” is
set toward the hoist, with the right edge of its trunk halfway to the fly. The
crossbar curves upward slightly at both ends. A red Canadian maple leaf one-third
the height of the flag is centred at the base of the “T”. The width of the
trunk is one-fourth the flag’s length.
John M. Purcell, Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18,
2011
The white band is supposed to resemble a T for the city's name, but also recalls
the appearance of the City Hall building. The flag was adopted on the 140th anniversary
of Toronto in 1974.
Mark Brader, 2 July 2016
The white object represents City Hall, one of the landmark
buildings of the city, with its twin towers in silhouette forming a “T” on the
flag for Toronto. The towers themselves curve toward the viewer at their outer
sides, so the object on the flag creates a remarkably recognizable depiction of
them. The maple leaf symbolizes the city council and recalls Toronto’s Canadian
heritage.
John M. Purcell, Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18,
2011
RobeRenato De Santis, a 21-year-old student at George Brown College.
John M. Purcell, Canadian City Flags,
Raven 18,
2011
image located by Doug Bloudoff, 2 November 2011
A blue-green horizontal bicolor with a white six-looped design toward the hoist.
The chain-like shape symbolized the six cities/boroughs making up the whole.
Mark Brader, 2 July 2016
image located by Valentin Poposki, 18 November 2011
A dark blue(?) flag with the arms and a ribbon with the name above.
![[Toronto Police flag]](../images/c/ca-on-to-pol.gif)
image by Rob Raeside, 14 December 2014
Badge of the service, on a blue field, with a red border:
http://www.mtppa.com/Images/Kandahar%20Airfield%202011.jpg
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/po-mp/images/afghan-commr.jpg
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/12/13/why_is_john_tory_shilling_for_the_police_union_siddiqui.html
Badge:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/18/Toronto_Police_Service_Logo.svg/899px-Toronto_Police_Service_Logo.svg.png
Dave Fowler, 14 December 2014
![[Proposal for a flag for Toronto]](../images/c/ca-on-to-ct.gif)
![[Proposal for a flag for Toronto]](../images/c/ca-on-to-c1.gif)
images by Ivan Sache, 3 August 2018
Cabbagetown is a lively neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada:
http://www.oldcabbagetown.com,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbagetown,_Toronto and proudly flies its own
flag:
http://www.oldcabbagetown.com/comm_open.php
http://cabbagetownnews.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html
Green
field, white Canadian pale, on the pale a green cabbage. More pictures are available
on the internet, the apparent colour differences are not relevant I suppose.
Once seen, never forgotten!
Jan Mertens, 18 August 2010
Two designs of the flag differing by the rendition of the cabbage can be seen
on photos:
First design:
http://cabbagetownnews.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html
https://www.flickr.com/photos/suebie68/3389160230
http://www.houseoftheorangemonkey.co.uk/monkey/trips/trip55040805.htm
http://www.kikucorner.com/2014/09/24/cabbagetown-arts-and-crafts-neighbourhood-festival
Second design:
https://cabbagetownto.com/cabbagetown-happenings-july-30th/
https://cabbagetownreview.blogspot.com/2014/09/
http://cabbagetownnews.blogspot.com/2009/09/
http://cabbagetownnews.blogspot.com/2011/01/
https://cabbagetownreview.blogspot.com/2015/08
https://sagerealestate.ca/explore-neighborhoods/cabbagetown
https://sagerealestate.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/IMG_9446.jpg
Ivan Sache, 3 August 2018
![[Guildwood Village]](../images/c/ca-ontsg.jpg)
image located by Paul Bassinson, 12 May 2019
Images of the flag of the village of Guildwood, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada were obtained from https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjOq8eeXgAARg6D.jpg and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildwood#/media/File:GuildwoodVillageFlagToryAinslieMason.jpg.
Quartered, red, white, blue, with graphic images in each quarter.
Paul
Bassinson, 12 May 2019
Two Toronto newspapers, "The National Post" and "The Torontoist", have jointly launched the Neighborhood Flags Contest "Flags for All":
"[...] we're urging our combined, talented readers to design Toronto neighbourhood flags, starting with the eclectic Kensington!".
Two flag proposals are shown on the websites of the organizing
newspapers: The National Post
and The Torontoist.
Ivan Sache, 4 October 2007
Having lots of experience with flags and flag design, I see some flaws
in the choice for Kensington. The colours would be well chosen if they
appear in darker tones; light green and light yellow however will fade
in the first sunlight that hits them. The K device is also ill-chosen -
first off all it is readable from only one side of the flag (all words
and letters on flags have this problem!) Secondly what does an 'Olde
English' style of font have to do with the market neighbourhood, apart
from the name of a street 'Kensington' of English origin. Secondly this
particular mixed font is highly suggestive of a Chinese-language
character; this would mislead. I recall in the late 1940s, when we
lived on Spadina, we didn't call it Kensington Market rather it was
known as the Jewish market. Keep, but darken, the colours because they
are representative of baked goods (gold or bright yellow) and vegetables
(greens, fruit) major market staples over many years. Substitute a bagel
for the letter K and you got it.
Kevin Harrington, 2 December 2007
Kevin Harrington's article "Seven Cities in
Search of a Flag" was published in the Communications of the XI International
Congress of Vexillology (Madrid, 1985). The City of Toronto is one of the
seven administrative units making up Toronto. The others are Metropolitan
Toronto (covering the whole of the city - the City of Toronto is only the city
centre) and the boroughs of East York, Etobicoke,
North York, Scarborough and
York. All of them
had flags.
Jan Oskar Engene, July 1996
Effective at the start of 1998, this federated structure was swept away
by the provincial government and since then there has only been a single City of
Toronto covering the whole area that used to be Metropolitan Toronto ("Metro").
Mark Brader, 2 July 2016
