- The Governor General of Canada
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Bank of Montreal
Montréal, Quebec
Registration of Arms and Supporters
November 16, 1992
Vol. II, p. 138
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Blazon
Arms
Argent a saltire Gules between in chief a rose of the last barbed, seeded, leaved and slipped in base a beaver to the sinister and in fess a thistle leaved and slipped and a sprig of shamrock proper a bordure per pale Sable and Vert;
Crest
Upon a log of maple fesswise sprouting a beaver proper;
Supporters
Upon a grassy mound on either side an Indigenous person to the dexter in full dress holding in the exterior hand a calumet and raising the other hand to the forehead the sinister in hunting dress holding in the exterior hand a bow all proper;
Motto
CONCORDIA SALUS. This Latin phrase means "Harmony is salvation".
Symbolism
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