Plaque

A metal crest of the HMCS Saguenay mounted on a wooden plaque. The crest is circular with a gold painted metal edge resembling a rope. There are 3 gold painted maples leaves at the bottom of the edge of the crest. The centre of the crest is black with five wavy lines crossing it diagonally repeating the colours white and blue. Over all the wavy lines is the side profile of an indigenous man wearing a hoop earring and a red headband with feathers. At the top of the crest is a gold coloured crown with the sterns of 3 ships on it and 2 white sails between each stern. The name "Saguenay" in black lettering is below the crown on a red background. The back of the plaque has a circular groove at the top.

Heraldic description of badge: Sable, a bend wavy argent charged with two like cotises azure, surmounted by an Indian's head facing sinister and couped at the shoulder proper having a fillet gules about the temples, depending there from, tips downward, four feathers of the second pied of the last, and pendant from the ear an annulet silver. (Arbuckle, J. Graeme (1987). Badges of the Canadian Navy. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Nimbus Publishing. ISBN 0-920852-49-1)