- The Governor General of Canada
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The Robert McCausland Stained Glass Company Limited
Toronto, Ontario
Grant of Arms, Supporters and Flag
December 15, 1992
Vol. II, p. 209
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Blazon
Arms
Paly of three per fesse ogivy Or and Purpure counterchanged in centre chief a sun in splendour Or between five Don Carlos lead knives all counterchanged;
Crest
Issuing from an Ontario coronet namely a gold rim set with jewels Gules Vert Purpure and Azure and heightened with maple leaves alternately Azure and Gules with trillium flowers interposed proper a demi lion Or armed langued and holding in its dexter paw a paint brush Gules and in its sinister paw a crucible Sable flamed Gules;
Supporters
On a grassy mound dexter an Apollion sinister a Heliadion namely the bare torso of a young man and a young woman proper conjoined respectively to the hind quarters of a lion and a lioness Purpure semé of suns in splendour both armed crined and wearing an Eastern crown all Or and holding in the exterior hand a prism proper;
Motto
EX IGNI ET LUCE ARS. This Latin phrase means "Out of fire and light, art".
Flag
A banner of the Arms;
Symbolism
In general, the symbolism of emblems prior to 2000 does not exist in an appropriate format for the online Register.
Background
Canada Gazette Information
The announcement of the Letters Patent was made on June 26, 1993, in Volume 127, page 2076 of the Canada Gazette.
Artist Information
Creator(s)
Original concept of Robert D. Watt, Chief Herald of Canada, assisted by the heralds of the Canadian Heraldic Authority.
Painter
David Farrar
Calligrapher
Nancy Ellis
Recipient Information
Civil Institution
Profit Organization