Town of Picture Butte adopts a Centennial Logo for 100th anniversary

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Sunny South News

By Kristine Jean
Sunny South News

Beginning in January 2026, the Town of Picture Butte will have a new logo for its milestone 100th anniversary. 

It will be the official town logo for the year in 2026, as the town celebrates its centennial.  

Councillors approved the logo at the Town of Picture Butte’s May 26, regular council meeting, after discussing several options that were presented. The chosen logo for the centennial is a variation of the Town Crest, which was created and adopted via a bylaw in March 1981.   

The Town Crest consists of a shield highlighting four areas – curved lettering representing a chinook arch, which announces the arrival of a chinook wind.  Landscape lines denoting the Butte, the Coulee at Picture Butte and the farm land of the region. It also displays a wheat stock on the left and a barley stock on the right, depicting the agricultural area around the municipality, and an irrigation ditch and falling water, recognizing the importance of the irrigation system in the centre, of which the Town of Picture Butte is located. 

The centennial logo, which was created by students at Picture Butte High School with contributions from students at the town’s other two schools, is identical to the crest, but with the addition of the words ‘100 years’ written in the centre and the years 1926 and 2026 noted on the respective left and right sides of the shield.

In a presentation to council, Picture Butte CAO Keith Davis noted numerous logo’s were created and presented to council over the past several weeks and the new logo will be used by the Picture Butte Centennial Committee, which has already held several meetings, on their correspondence this year. 

Councillors also discussed how long the centennial logo should be used on correspondence, whether that is for the year 2026, or for a longer time period. 

“I think we should revisit that and I think the new council should decide that (following the municipal election in October). This was just designed for the 100 year centennial celebration so January 1 to December 31, 2026,” said Davis, noting if council wants to keep this as the town’s official logo moving forward, they should bring it back to council and reexamine it. “The initial intent was to have a special logo just for the centennial,” Davis concluded.