Hart (deer) Hart (deer) Hart is an archaic word for "stag" (from Old English "heorot", "deer" – compare with modern Dutch "hert", medieval French "hart", German "Hirsch" and Swedish/Norwegian/Danish "hjort", also "deer"). Specifically, "hart" was used in medieval times to describe a red deer stag more than five years old. In medieval hunting terms, a stag in its first year was called a "calf" or "calfe", in its second a "brocket", in its third a "spayed", "spade", or "spayard", in its fourth a "staggerd" or "staggard", and in its fifth a "stag", or a "great stag". To be a "hart" was its
Red Deer Advocate three weekly newspapers covering outlying Alberta towns: the "Ponoka News" in Ponoka, the "Rimbey Review" in Rimbey and the "Stettler Independent" in Stettler. In addition to printing its own weekly and daily products, the "Advocate" presses also print, by contract, several other newspapers covering communities in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Red Deer Advocate The Red Deer Advocate is a daily newspaper in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Published by Black Press, the newspaper was first established in 1901 as the "Red Deer Echo", changing its name to "Alberta Advocate" in 1903 and "Red Deer Advocate" in 1906. Originally it