Arms of His Majesty The King in Right of Canada Armoiries de Sa Majesté Le Roi du Canada
Armiger
Charles III, King of Canada
Adopted
19 November 1921 (1921-11-19), last revised 12 July 1994[1]
Crest
Upon a royal helmet, a lion passant guardant or imperially crowned proper and holding in the dexter paw a maple leaf gules.
Torse
Argent and gules, the mantling gules doubled argent.
Shield
Tierced in fess, the first and second divisions containing the quarterly coat following, namely, 1st gules three lions passant guardant in pale or, 2nd, or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory gules, 3rd, azure a harp or stringed argent, 4th, azure three fleurs-de-lis or, and the third division being argent three maple leaves conjoined on one stem proper.
Supporters
Dexter: a lion or holding a lance argent, point or, flying therefrom to the dexter the Royal Union Flag, sinister: a unicorn argent armed, crined and unguled or, gorged with a coronet composed of crosses-patée and fleurs-de-lis a chain affixed thereto and reflexed or, holding a like lance flying therefrom to the sinister a banner azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis or.
Compartment
A wreath of roses, thistles, shamrocks, and lilies proper.
Motto
Latin: A Mari usque ad Mare, lit. 'from sea to sea'
Order(s)
The ribbon of the Order of Canada (Latin: Desiderantes meliorem patriam, lit. 'desiring a better country')
Other elements
The whole ensigned by the royal crown proper.
Earlier version(s)
Arms of Canada, revised 1957
The coat of arms of Canada (French: Armoiries du Canada), also known as the Royal Coat of Arms of Canada (French: armoiries royales du Canada)[11] or, formally, as the Arms of His Majesty The King in Right of Canada (French: Armoiries de Sa Majesté Le Roi du Canada),[16] is the arms of dominion of the Canadian monarch and, thus, also the official coat of arms of Canada.[15][17] In use since 1921, it is closely modelled after the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, with French and distinctive Canadian elements replacing or added to those derived from the British version.
The maple leaves in the shield, blazoned "proper" (i.e., in natural colour), were originally drawn vert (green), but were redrawn gules (red) in 1957 and a circlet of the Order of Canada was added to the arms for limited use in 1987. The arms are registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority and protected under Crown copyright; they are used to signify national sovereignty and the federal government uses the arms to represent the state under the Federal Identity Program. Elements of the coat of arms are also used in other designs, with the shield being used in the various royal standards belonging to members of the royal family and the crest of the arms serving as the focal point of the governor general's flag.
^Robert Douglas Watt (15 March 2005). "Registration of the Armorial Bearings of Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada". Canadian Heraldic Authority. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
^Cook, Sheila-Marie (March 2007). "The Canadian Heraldic Authority – Approvals" (PDF). Canada Gazette. 141 (11): 586. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
^ abDepartment of Canadian Heritage (2016). "Canada: Symbols of Canada". Ottawa: Queen's Printer for Canada. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
^"Statements by Members – Royal Arms of Canada". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Commons. 5 December 1995. col. 1410–1415. Archived from the original on 10 March 2009.
^Military Police Complaints Commission. "The Commission > Publications > Outlook With Vision: Annual Report 2001". Queen's Printer for Canada. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2009.
^Bank of Canada. "Currency Museum > Learning Centre". Queen's Printer for Canada. Retrieved 28 June 2009. [dead link]
^Reynolds, Ken. "Pro Valore: Canada's Victoria Cross" (PDF) (2 ed.). Ottawa: Queen's Printer for Canada. p. 40. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2009.
^Department of National Defence. "Features > 2008 > Modern Canadian Victoria Cross unveiled at Rideau Hall". Queen's Printer for Canada. Archived from the original on 2 December 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
^Bousfield, Arthur; Toffoli, Gary (2002). Fifty Years the Queen. Toronto: Dundurn Press. p. 35. ISBN 1-55002-360-8.
^Citizenship and Immigration Canada (2009). Discover Canada(PDF). Ottawa: Queen's Printer for Canada. pp. 38, 61. ISBN 978-1-100-12739-2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 November 2009. Retrieved 3 December 2009.
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^"The Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada, Vol. IV, p. 457". The Canadian Heraldic Authority. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
^Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (31 January 2003), Federal Identity Program, Queen's Printer for Canada, retrieved 4 October 2016
^"The Coat of Arms of Canada – A Short History". Royal Heraldry Society of Canada. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2009.
^ abTidridge, Nathan (2011). Canada's Constitutional Monarchy: An Introduction to Our Form of Government. Toronto: Dundurn Press. p. 71. ISBN 9781459700840.
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^Department of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada (2 October 2014). "Canadian Flags of the Royal Family". Queen's Printer for Canada. Archived from the original on 2 January 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
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