- The Governor General of Canada
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John Edwin Ruch
Ottawa, Ontario
Grant of Arms
October 1, 1990
Vol. II, p. 428
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Blazon
Arms
Or a rough haired dog's head erased Sable gorged with a collar Or pendant therefrom an escutcheon Or charged with a fleur-de-lis Gules and bearing in its mouth a shepherd's crook bendwise Gules;
Crest
Wthin a Loyalist military coronet Or a rock Sable thereon a rook wings addorsed and inverted Sable beaked and membered Gules holding in its beak a feather Or quilled Gules each foot shackled with an annulet Or;
Motto
IMMER HÖHER RÜCKEN. This German phrase means "Ever striving higher".
Symbolism
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