The Viceregal Lion
  1. The Governor General of Canada
Heraldry Today

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Eric Robert James Nisbet-Brown

Toronto, Ontario
Grant of Arms and Badge
October 28, 1996
Vol. III, p. 144

Click on each image to enlarge. The blazon and symbolism for each element will accompany the enlarged image.


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