Canadian Forces Station Alert, Canada

CANADIAN FORCES STATION ALERT, CANADA

Official blazon

Origin/meaning

The black and yellow background signifies the two conitions of twenty-four hours of darkness and daylight which prevails in the Artic. The muskox, a hardy animal who lives and survives despite the many hardships of the icy, barren and forbidding wastes of the Artic, is suitably symbolic of those who man this northern station.

The Motto which translates as "Beyond the Eskimo land" symbolises the fact that no Eskimo (Inuit) have been nown to go and live as far north as Alert, execpt as Department of National Defence or other Federal employees.