Deer Pevensies to their home in England. In the 1979 book "The Animals of Farthing Wood", The Great White Stag is the leader of all the animals. Deer are represented in heraldry by the "stag" or "hart", or less often, by the "hind", and the "brocket" (a young stag up to two years), respectively. Stag's heads and antlers also appear as charges. The old name for deer was simply cerf, and it is chiefly the head that appears on the ancient arms. Examples of deer in coats of arms can be found in the arms of Hertfordshire, England, and its county
Red Deer, Alberta Crossing was gradually abandoned. The first train from Calgary to Edmonton passed through Red Deer in 1891. The Cree peoples called the river on which Red Deer stands "Waskasoo Seepee", which translates to "Elk River". However, British traders translated the name as "Red Deer River", since they mistakenly thought elk were European red deer. Later, the settlers of the area named their community after the river. The name for the modern city in Plains Cree is a calque back from English of the mistranslated, "mihkwâpisimosos" literally "red type of deer" while the name of the river itself is still "wâwâskêsiw-sîpiy"