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Hastings County

A lapel pin with a coat of arms. The shield is quartered with geometric shapes in each section. On top of the shield is a crown of bricks. On either side of the shield is a bear chained to a post. Below is a banner with the motto “Nisi Dominus Frustra”. At the bottom of the pin is the name “County of Hastings”.

Hastings County

Hastings was named by Henry Fowlds who purchased a grist mill in 1851 and named the area around it after Flora Muir Campbell wife of the many-titled British aristocrat Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Baron Rawdon, Earl of Moira who became Marquess of Hastings in Sussex, England in 1817. The English name Hastings comes from an Old English word Hæstingas meaning “the followers of Hæsta”, one of the Anglo-Saxon tribes in Britain.

Lapel pin of a coat of arms depicting a shamrock with a dragon on either side. A crown of maple leaves and pinecones on top. Words reading Town of Bancroft.

Bancroft, Town of

Town of Bancroft boasts being the mineral capital of Canada because its geology includes around 90% of all types of minerals found on Earth.

Round lapel pin with the words Town of Bancroft Mineral Capital of Canada around the edge. At the centre, a coat of arms with a shamrock, pine tree, crowned lion, a dodecahedron and two feathers. Above the coat of arms is a crown of maple leaves.

Bancroft (Alternative)

An alternative pin for Bancroft

Carlow/Mayo, Township of

Named after two counties in Ireland of the same names, Carlow/Mayo is historically a timber and mining town with over half the land in the region designated as crown land.

An oval pin with a maple leaf surrounded by radiating light. A blue round border at the centre has the date 1998 and the text The Municipality of. A red banner has the name Centre Hastings.

Centre Hastings, Municipality of

The urban centre of Centre Hastings is the Village of Madoc.

Move over Chris Columbus and Leif Erickson, Madoc is named after Welsh prince Madoc ap Owain Gwynedd who some folklore says was the first European to find North America.

A lapel pin shaped like a decorative sign with an oval inlay featuring a single evergreen tree on a shoreline with several hills in the background. Underneath the image are the words Hastings Highlands.

Hastings Highlands, Municipality of

Hastings Highlands is home to Maynooth Madness, an annual festival including loggers games and the Mud Dawg race which includes races through a man-made bog.

Lapel pin depicting a stag in front of a log cabin and pine trees. Banners on the pin display the words Limerick Township Incorporated 1887.

Limerick, Township of

The township is named after the town of the same name in Ireland. The local economy is largely forestry based. The season community triples each year going from around 300 residents to over 1000.

A lapel pin featuring a gradient blue background. At the top a maple leaf rests on the centre. The pin reads Marmora & Lake EST 1821.

Marmora and Lake, Municipality of

Marmora and Lake has a fun restructuring history.

1821 - Marmora Twp forms

1852 - Marmora Twp merges with Lake Twp

1901 - Village of Marmora separates

1998 - M&L Twp merges with Village of Deloro

2001 - Village of Marmora rejoins M&L Twp

An oval lapel pin with the words City of Quinte West around a coat of arms. The shield is divided in half vertically by waved lines representing flowing water that end in wavy lines at the bottom. Two crowns are on either sign of the vertical divider.

Quinte West, City of (Separated)

Quinte West is probably best known as home of CFB Trenton, the largest Royal Canadian Air Force base.

It also hosts the National Air Force museum which boasts the only fully restored WWII Halifax Bomber in the world.

A coat of arms. In the upper left quarter is a cross of St. George with a trillium. In the upper right quarter are geometric stripes representing a field with seedlings. The bottom half has a seedling, farm equipment and the year 1998. Banners over the shield read Stirling Rawdon Peace Prosperity Pride. A royal crown with four maple leaves is on top.

Stirling-Rawdon, Township of

Stirling-Rawdon is home to Farmtown Park; a museum dedicated to preserving rural Ontario's agricultural heritage and celebrates the role of farmers in providing safe, local, sustainable food.

A round lapel pin with a detailed image of a sparse pine tree standing over a bluff that is overlooking a body of water. In the foreground a path crosses the scene. In the background, fields, hills and buildings stand in front of a bright sun on the horizon. A border around the edge of the pin has the name “Municipality of Tweed” and the date 1998.

Tweed, Municipality of

In 1967, voters in Tweed elected Ontario’s first all-female council under the leadership of Reeve Barbara Allen. When asked how she would balance her obligations as reeve with her role as a housewife and mother, Allen responded “I married a liberated man”.

A lapel pin shaped like a shield with an axe and mining pick crossed in the centre in front of a sun rising over a lake and two pine trees. At the bottom are three maple leaves on a single stem. At the top is the word Wollaston. At the bottom is the word Township.

Wollaston, Township of

No doubts from this pin about the town's history. Iron mines and a lumber mill dating back to 1882.

Up to 100 loads of lumber were once shipped out daily by rail. The old railway station is still standing.

Hastings Municipalities Without Pins

Faraday Township

Still Needed

Still Needed: City of Belleville; Town of Deseronto; Township of Madoc; Township of Tudor and Cashel; Township of Tyendinaga

Miscellaneous Local Pins

A lapel pin with an oak leaf divided in two by a wavy line to appear as a green hilled area beside a water body. To the right are the worlds North Hastings and the slogan Naturally...

North Hastings Economic Development Corporation

A lapel pin for an economic development corporation serving municipalities in north Hastings County including Wollaston, Bancroft, Faraday, Carlow/Mayo, Hastings Highlands, Limerick and Tudor & Cashel.

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