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Patrick Andrew McEachran Gilligan-Hackett

Vancouver, British Columbia
Grant of Arms, Flag and Badge
June 15, 2017
Vol. VI, p. 728

Badge of Patrick Andrew McEachran Gilligan-Hackett

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Blazon

Badge

Two scrolls in saltire Argent surmounted by a hackle Gules;


Symbolism

Badge

The red hackle honours ancestors of Mr. Gilligan-Hackett’s mother who served in The Black Watch and to his Associate Membership in the regiment’s officers’ mess. The scrolls symbolize his occupation as a lawyer, and the lawyers in his father’s ancestral family.