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JACKSON, A. Y. (Alexander Young) (1882-1974)
This famous Canadian artist played a much publicized but highly controversial role in Canada’s Flag Debate by submitting several designs of his own and criticizing the vertical bars and the maple leaf stylisation in the adopted flag. He appeared before the Flag Committee accompanied by his sponsor, Robert McMichael. When John Ross Matheson lunched with him to better understand his intentions, he seemed to detect the doings “of a mischievous boy.” In a later interview, Matheson expressed the view that it was an attempt to impose the artistic renown of a famous artist on Canadian heraldry, although he knew nothing of the field both as an art or science.* Another artist of the Group of Seven to submit designs for Canada’s flag was Alfred Joseph CASSON.
Ref : Matheson, Canada’s Flag (Bibliog.), p. 128, 130-132; Rick Archbold, I Stand for Canada, The Story of the Maple Leaf Flag (Toronto: Macfarlane Walter and Ross, [2002]), p. 77, 81, 84, 98; *“Birth of a flag: Interview [by Auguste Vachon] with Judge John Ross Matheson” in The Archivist, Jan-Feb 1990, p. 4-5.
This famous Canadian artist played a much publicized but highly controversial role in Canada’s Flag Debate by submitting several designs of his own and criticizing the vertical bars and the maple leaf stylisation in the adopted flag. He appeared before the Flag Committee accompanied by his sponsor, Robert McMichael. When John Ross Matheson lunched with him to better understand his intentions, he seemed to detect the doings “of a mischievous boy.” In a later interview, Matheson expressed the view that it was an attempt to impose the artistic renown of a famous artist on Canadian heraldry, although he knew nothing of the field both as an art or science.* Another artist of the Group of Seven to submit designs for Canada’s flag was Alfred Joseph CASSON.
Ref : Matheson, Canada’s Flag (Bibliog.), p. 128, 130-132; Rick Archbold, I Stand for Canada, The Story of the Maple Leaf Flag (Toronto: Macfarlane Walter and Ross, [2002]), p. 77, 81, 84, 98; *“Birth of a flag: Interview [by Auguste Vachon] with Judge John Ross Matheson” in The Archivist, Jan-Feb 1990, p. 4-5.
JOBIN, Louis (1845-1928)
Sculpteur, doreur, artiste et inventeur, né à Saint-Raymond, Bas-Canada. En 1865, il entre à l'atelier d'un sculpteur réputé de Québec, François-Xavier Berlinguet. Sa formation d’apprenti inclut la sculpture d’armoiries. « Au cours de cette formation polyvalente, Jobin exécute des meubles liturgiques (autels de Sainte-Marie, en Beauce), des figures de proue, des enseignes de commerce, des ornements, des armoiries britanniques et autres ouvrages pour la plupart aujourd’hui disparus. »
Réf : http://www.biographi.ca/fr/bio/jobin_louis_15F.html, consulté le 10 février 2014.
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Louis Jobin was a sculptor, gilder, and inventor born at Saint-Raymond, Lower Canada. In 1865, he entered the workshop of François-Xavier Berlinguet, a celebrated Quebec wood-carver. His training included the carving of coats of arms. “In the course of this broad training, Jobin created liturgical furniture (the altars of Sainte-Marie in Beauce), figureheads, commercial signs, ornaments, British coats of arms, and other works, most of which have now disappeared.”
Ref: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/jobin_louis_15E.html, consulted 10 February 2014.
Sculpteur, doreur, artiste et inventeur, né à Saint-Raymond, Bas-Canada. En 1865, il entre à l'atelier d'un sculpteur réputé de Québec, François-Xavier Berlinguet. Sa formation d’apprenti inclut la sculpture d’armoiries. « Au cours de cette formation polyvalente, Jobin exécute des meubles liturgiques (autels de Sainte-Marie, en Beauce), des figures de proue, des enseignes de commerce, des ornements, des armoiries britanniques et autres ouvrages pour la plupart aujourd’hui disparus. »
Réf : http://www.biographi.ca/fr/bio/jobin_louis_15F.html, consulté le 10 février 2014.
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Louis Jobin was a sculptor, gilder, and inventor born at Saint-Raymond, Lower Canada. In 1865, he entered the workshop of François-Xavier Berlinguet, a celebrated Quebec wood-carver. His training included the carving of coats of arms. “In the course of this broad training, Jobin created liturgical furniture (the altars of Sainte-Marie in Beauce), figureheads, commercial signs, ornaments, British coats of arms, and other works, most of which have now disappeared.”
Ref: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/jobin_louis_15E.html, consulted 10 February 2014.