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Vernon Graham Cooke
Calgary, Alberta
Grant of Arms, Flags and Badge, with differences to Matthew Alexander Cooke
August 20, 2009
Vol. V, p. 467
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Blazon
Arms
Quarterly Or and Argent, a tiger rampant barry Gules and Azure;
Crest
A winged demi-tiger guardant proper holding in the dexter paw a maple leaf proper and resting the sinister paw on a cross patté Vert fimbriated Or;
Motto
VERITAS ET DILIGENTIA;
Symbolism
Arms
The background refers to the four quadrants of Calgary, the home town of Mr. Cooke, his wife and their son. The yellow represents the dry prairie summers, and the white the snowy winters. The tiger alludes to Mr. Cooke’s father’s family home in India; the striped pattern to the lion in the arms of the German state of Hesse and thus to his mother’s family; and the blue refers to the St. Andrew’s flag and thus to Mrs. Cooke’s Scottish heritage.
Crest
The tiger repeats the symbolism of the Arms, with its wings as a reference to Mr. Cooke’s love of travel. The cross and maple leaf refer to Mr. Cooke’s career in the information technology industry in Canada, the cross being indicative of a plus sign, a notation in Boolean algebra.
Motto
This Latin phrase means “Truth and diligence”.