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Banner of the Nova Scotia Loyalists

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Item

Date:

1789

Reference:

R5780, Volume number: 1

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2837293

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Banner of the Nova Scotia Loyalists

Banner of the Nova Scotia Loyalists
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Date(s):

1789

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 artifact : oil on black silk
Support 58.400 x 76.200 cm

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This item is likely a banner of the Nova Scotia Loyalists and has been dated by the source as 1789. Scholars have reiterated that the date is late to early nineteenth century and that the motto is appropriate to the Nova Scotia Loyalists. There has been some investigation but no successful link to any particular family.

Heraldic expert Darrel Kennedy from the office of the Governor-General examined the item in early 2008 and recognized the design elements as a hatchment. the banner is still awaiting examination by the Canadian Conservation Institute., The banner was acquired from the Museum Book Stores, London, England post 1929., The banner is made of black silk and bears a rather elaborate achievement of arms. There are three shields of arms on each of which appears a golden box below the sun, the crest, and a stork. Below the shields, a scroll bears the inscription "RESURGAM" (I shall rise again). See Heraldry file, Art section: Banner of the Nova Scotia Loyalists., Digitization project: Living Memory/Mémoire Vivante.

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Artist: Unknown

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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: In paint, on scroll below the shields: RESURGAM

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Original banner of the Nova Scotia Loyalists
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Loyalists

heraldry

HERA - FLAGS
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Private
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access through an art archivist. No restriction on use for reproduction or publication

Volume [R5780] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00001] C-001527

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. R5780-1.
Copyright: Expired

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