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New Maryland, New Brunswick

Original Flag

by Chris Pinette

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New Maryland

In my never ending search for Municipal flags on the net, I found the flag of the Village of New Maryland in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
Chris Pinette - 04 September 1997

The flag of the Village of New Maryland, New Brunswick was adopted on February 15, 1995. The flag is a banner of the Arms of the Village which are loosely based upon the flag of the U.S. State of Maryland. The village was named by a Mr. Arnold, a settler from Maryland, U.S.A. circa 1817.
Chris Pinette - 05 April 1999

Maneuvering through the website http://www.vonm.ca/main/home.html, I encountered a detailed account of the arms:

New Maryland Coat-of-Arms

In 1783 the Maryland Loyalists, a provincial regiment from the colony of Maryland which had fought in the American revolution as part of the British American Corps, was taken to what is now New Brunswick at the end of hostilities with most of the other loyalist regiments. These units were settled on blocks of land along the upper St. John River. The members of the Maryland Loyalists were assigned Block Number One opposite Fredericton.
In 1817, some descendants of the Maryland Loyalists moved to the highland area away from the St. John River and south of the parish of Fredericton where they engaged in farming and lumbering. In 1818, Scottish immigrants also settled in the area which was known as "Maryland Hill". The area was subsequently set off in 1846 as the Parish of New Maryland. In the 1960's, a Local Service District was formed in the parish and on 1 June 1991, that part of the parish adjoining Fredericton was incorporated as the Village of New Maryland under the provisions of the Municipalities Act.
The series of sketches describe the design and development of the shield of arms.
Shield #1
Shield #1 - The concept for the proposed shield is derived from the arms of George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, who received a grant of land on the Potomac River in 1632 from King Charles I. It was called "Maryland" after the King's wife Queen Henrietta Maria. The arms of Lord Baltimore were used by the province of Maryland throughout the colonial period on the reverse of its great seal and are still being used by the state of Maryland today on its' state seal.
The arms of the Lords Calvert, shield #1, quarter the family arms of Calvert with the family arms of Crossland. The Calvert arms are described in heraldic terms as "paly of six Or and Sable a bend counterchanged:. George Calvert of Danbywiske, Yorkshire, was created Lord Baltimore in 1625. He was the son of Leonard Calvert and Alice, daughter of John Crossland of Crossland, Yorkshire. The Calvert arms in rectangular form constitute the Maryland state flag and the shield is used in full colour on the state's automobile plates.
Shield #2
Shield #2 - The Calvert arms are the source of the basic tinctures and form for the Village's proposed arms. Or (gold) as the background or field with two vertical bars or pallets coloured Sable (black).