- The Governor General of Canada
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Eric Robert James Nisbet-Brown
Toronto, Ontario
Grant of Arms and Badge
October 28, 1996
Vol. III, p. 144
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Blazon
Arms
Purpure a tree eradicated composed per pale to the dexter of a sugar maple and to the sinister of an apple tree fructed all Copper;
Crest
A lion passant queue fourchée Copper collared Purpure;
Motto
SPEM FIDES ALIT. This Latin phrase means "Faith nourishes hopes".
Badge
A tree as in 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 November 22, 1997, in Volume 131, page 3589 of the Canada Gazette.
Artist Information
Creator(s)
Original concept of Robert Black, assisted by the heralds of the Canadian Heraldic Authority.
Painter
Linda Nicholson
Calligrapher
Suzzann Wright
Recipient Information
Individual