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City of Richmond

Richmond, British Columbia
Registration of Arms, Supporters and Badge
April 15, 1996
Vol. III, p. 96

Arms of the City of Richmond

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Blazon

Arms

Or on a pale wavy Azure three leaping salmon in pale proper;

Crest

Rising from a circlet of maple leaves Gules and dogwood flowers alternately a dove wings elevated and addorsed in its beak a sprig of olive proper;

Supporters

On a grassy mound with sprigs of blueberry fructed growing therefrom all proper dexter a female figure proper crined Or vested Argent supporting with the exterior hand a cornucopia at the mouth its tail over her shoulder proper sinister a like figure about her shoulders a riband Gules thereon roses Argent barbed and seeded proper supporting with the exterior hand a cornucopia by its tail also proper its mouth to the ground;

Motto

CHILD OF THE FRASER;

Badge

An anchor Azure environed of strawberry plant flowered and charged at the arms and shank junction with a strawberry flower proper;


Symbolism

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