- The Governor General of Canada
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Nathan Danyel Hyde
Mono, Ontario
Grant of Arms and Badge
January 15, 2019
Vol. VII, p. 141
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Blazon
Arms
Azure a cross couped Ermine ensigned at each limb by a mural coronet Or;
Crest
A sea-horse Ermine queued Azure maned, finned and with a tanned hide Or draped over its sinister leg;
Motto
MAGNA DIFFICULTAS • MAJOR GLORIA;
Symbolism
Arms
The cross is indicative of Mr. Hyde’s faith and the importance it plays in his life. The fur of the cross relates to the hide in the crest. The mural coronets are symbolic of Mr. Hyde’s long service in municipal governments.
Crest
The hide is a canting reference to Mr. Hyde’s surname. The upper portion of the sea-horse is representative of Mr. Hyde’s membership in the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple (an association of barristers in the United Kingdom) of which the Pegasus is the emblem; the lower half is both a reference to his passion for sea-going pursuits and to his mother’s maiden name of Fisher.
Motto
This Latin phrase, meaning “Great difficulty, greater glory,” is a paraphrase of the saying “The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory” by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Cic. Off. 1.64).