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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Ottawa, Ontario
Grant of Flags and Badges
May 24, 1991
Vol. II, p. 94
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Blazon
Flag
Corps Ensign of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police: An ensign Gules bearing a canton Azure bordered on the interior Or charged with a representation of the Badge of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police namely within a wreath of maple leaves a bison's head affronty Or ensigned by a representation of the Royal Crown;
Flag
Flag of the Commissioner: The Corps Ensign of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bearing in the fly the Commissioner's Badge of Rank;
Badge
For National Headquarters: A coronet composed of maple leaves set alternately with horseshoes the points upward on a rim all Or;
Badge
For K Division (Edmonton): A pronghorn antelope salient Or gorged with a collar of wild roses Gules
Badge
For L Division (Charlottetown): Three bars wavy couped ensigned by an oak tree fructed all Or;
Badge
For A Division (Ottawa): A sword and a key ward upward and outward in saltire ensigned by a maple leaf all Argent;
Badge
For B Division (St. John's): A caribou passant Or charged at the neck with a collar of linked crosses Gules;
Badge
For C Division (Montreal): A cross composed of four fleurs-de-lys base points all inward Argent;
Badge
For M Division (Whitehorse): A husky dog's head erased Argent within an orle of ten bezants;
Badge
For O Division (Toronto): A sprig of three maple leaves conjoined on one stem Or issuant from a trillium Argent seeded Or;
Badge
For D Division (Winnipeg): A bison passant Or;
Badge
For E Division (Vancouver): Two bars wavy couped ensigned by a demi-sun all Or;
Badge
For F Division (Regina): Three garbs in fess Or;
Badge
For The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Academy: Two sabres crossed in saltire ensigned by an antique lamp all Argent;
Badge
For The Equitation Section: Two lances in saltire flying pennons ensigned by a horse's head couped all Or;
Badge
For G Division (Yellowknife): A polar bear passant Argent;
Badge
For H Division (Halifax): A lion rampant Argent armed and langued Azure and gorged with a collar affixed thereto a saltire cross also Azure;
Badge
For J Division (Fredericton): A lymphad Or sail Argent charged with a purple violet Azure flags Argent;
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 August 10, 1991, in Volume 125, page 2568 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
Joan Bouwmeester
Calligrapher
Joan Bouwmeester
Recipient Information
Civil Institution
Federal Agency