Municipal Flag of the Corporation of the City of Castlegar - British Columbia - Municipal Flags on Waymarking.com

The flag of the City of Castlegar consists of a yellow castle centred on a blue background, with double wavy yellow lines emanating from each corner and converging at the castle in the centre. The castle represents Castlegar's status as a centre of commercial activity in the west Kootenay region, while the double wavy yellow lines represent the confluence of the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers, which meet in the city.

See Flags of the World for a rendering of the flag.

Like all communities in the Kootenays, mining and the railroad played important roles in Castlegar's development, with the CPR building a line to Castlegar from Nelson in the east in the 1890s and American mining and smelting magnate F. A. Heinze building a railroad from Trail, to the south, to Castlegar in about 1896. Later, the Columbia & Western, a subsidiary of the CPR, built a line from Castlegar west to Midway in 1897. This line eventually joined with the Kettle Valley Railway, completed in 1915, to connect the Kootenays with the coast.

Situated on the Columbia River, Castlegar became an important transshipment centre between the railways and the many paddlewheelers that steamed up and down the river.

Castlegar has remained an important commercial hub for the area.

Visit Instructions:
Post a different picture of the flag taken by you.
Optional: find additional information about the flag

Recent Visits/Logs:

There are no logs for this waymark yet.