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Harry Douglas Ellis Inns

Brantford, Ontario
Registration of Arms and Badge
December 12, 1989
Vol. I, p. 72

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Blazon

Arms

Azure on a pile reversed throughout per pale Argent and Or between a dragon contourné and a lion both rampant Or armed and langued Gules a base enarched counterchanged on a chief also Or three escutcheons Azure on each a pyramid in perspective the dexter face Or the other Argent;

Crest

An antique lamp Or enflamed proper between two branches of maple leaves of varying colour issuing from a cluster of trillium proper and ensigned by a crown rayonny Or;

Motto

INTEGRITAS · FIDES · CONSTANTIA. This Latin phrase means "Integrity, faith, constancy".

Badge

A pyramid in perspective the dexter face Or and the other Argent rising behind its point a sun in splendour Gules the whole environed by a scroll inscribed with the Motto;


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 8, 1991, in Volume 125, page 1922 of the Canada Gazette.


Artist Information

Creator(s)
Not available

Painter
Joan Bouwmeester

Calligrapher
Joan Bouwmeester


Recipient Information

Individual

View all Letters Patent for Harry Douglas Ellis Inns

The recipient's emblems were originally recorded at the College of Arms, London, England, 3 December 1975 (Arms and Crest) and 2 March 1985 (Badge).