The Viceregal Lion
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Walter Donald Ridley Eldon

Ottawa, Ontario
Registration of Arms
November 30, 2000
Vol. IV, p. 73

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Blazon

Arms

Azure an eagle displayed Or, beaked and legged Gules, grasping in each claw a flax-breaker Or, on a chief chequy Vert and Or a pale also Or, thereon an antique lamp Azure enflamed proper;

Crest

On a mount Vert between two sprigs of flax flowered proper a beaver sejant erect Or murally crowned Gules holding between the forepaws the head of an eel-spear prongs downwards Azure;

Motto

IN DEO CONFIDO;


Symbolism

Arms

Not available.

Crest

Not available.

Motto

This Latin phrase means "I trust in God."


Background

Canada Gazette Information

The announcement of the Letters Patent was made on March 24, 2001, in Volume 135, page 939 of the Canada Gazette.


Artist Information

Creator(s)
Not available

Painter
* Not available / Non disponible

Calligrapher
* Not applicable / Sans objet


Recipient Information

Individual

The recipient's emblems were originally recorded in the records of the College of Arms, London, England.