The Québec Remparts are marking three decades since their return to the provincial capital with a special commemorative logo.
The Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League team unveiled their new 30th anniversary logo on their social media channels on Thursday, May 28 — 20 years to the day after winning the first Memorial Cup title of the team’s second incarnation.
The logo features a black numeral 30 with swooping red lines through the zero in front of a black castle rampart. The years 1997 and 2027 sit at the bottom of each digit in the numeral, with the Remparts’ primary logo in between. Above the 30 is the slogan, “UNE HISTOIRE, UNE TRADITION” (“One history, one tradition”).
The style of the number 30 is “inspired by the visual language of hockey” and is reminiscent of numbers used on jerseys. The red lines through the middle are a callback to the logo the Remparts used when they returned to the league in 1997. Their movement “expresses the energy, vitality and performance” of the team.
Along with the logo, a version without the castle rampart and the slogan was also launched on Thursday. The Remparts didn’t specify in their posts how the anniversary logo would be used or which logo would be used where.
The original Québec Remparts team started in 1969 after investors bought and renamed another junior hockey franchise, the Quebec Aces. They won a Memorial Cup in 1971, a team featuring future Hockey Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur.
In 1985, the Remparts franchise went dormant for three seasons, but was resurrected in 1988 as Longueuil Collège Français. In 1991, the team moved to Verdun and were rechristened Verdun Collège Français. The franchised then folded in 1994.
In 1997, the Beaufort Harfangs relocated to Québec City and the Remparts were reborn. They eventually moved into the Colisée de Quebec — the former home of the NHL‘s Quebec Nordiques — in 1999. Since then, they’ve captured two Memorial Cups (2006, 2023). The 2006 squad was the first ever to win the Memorial Cup without hosting the tournament and without winning a league championship; they qualified after making the QMJHL finals against the Moncton Wildcats, who won that series and also hosted the tournament that year. Québec beat Moncton 6-2 in the Memorial Cup championship game.
