TO ALL TO WHOM

these Presents shall come or whom the same in any way concern,

GREETING:

BY Robert Douglas Watt, Chief Herald of Canada;

WHEREAS Yvette Loiselle, Dame Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, and George Edwin Beament, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and Bailiff Grand Cross of the Said Most Venerable Order, have represented to the Chief Herald of Canada that THE PRIORY IN CANADA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM was established in 1946 in accordance with the Order's Royal Charter and pursuant to Royal Sanction graciously accorded by His late Majesty King George VI, Sovereign Head of the Said Order, which continues the tradition of humanitarian and charitable work begun in Jerusalem in the eleventh century, which work was continued in New France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and which work extended to all parts of Canada during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and which Priory of Canada was further incorporated by Letters Patent of the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology of Canada dated the 30th day of August 1994, in order to encourage all that makes for the spiritual and moral strengthening of mankind, and to encourage and support all humanitarian and charitable work for the relief of persons in sickness and distress, suffering or danger, without distinction of race, class or creed; AND WHEREAS Yvette Loiselle and George Edwin Beament have expressed the wish, for and on behalf of the Priory of Canada of the said Order, that it be granted Arms and a Badge by lawful authority;

AND WHEREAS a Warrant has been issued by the Deputy Herald Chancellor authorizing this action;

NOW KNOW YOU that pursuant to the authority vested in His Excellency the Right Honourable Romeo Adrien LeBlanc, a Member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of the Order of Military Merit, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, to exercise the armorial preogative of Her Majesty the Queen of Canada, and the terms of my Commission of Office, and noting well that Her Majesty did graciously approve the use of the Royal Crown in the Arms herein granted, I, the Chief Herald of Canada do by these Presents grant and assign to THE PRIORY OF CANADA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM the following Arms: Gules on a cross Argent a maple leaf Gules in the first quarter a representation of the Royal Crest of England (upon a Royal Crown proper a lion statant guardant Or royally crowned proper); And for Mottoes: PRO FIDE . PRO UTILITATE HOMINUM; And for a Badge: A maple leaf without stem Gules surmounted with a pellet fimbriated and charged eith a Maltese cross Argent; And for a Flag: A Banner of the Arms;

AS THE SAME are more plainly here depicted and entered in Volume III, page 345 of the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada to be borne and used for ever hereafter by THE PRIORY OF CANADA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEN all according to the Law of Arms of Canada;

GIVEN under my hand and the seal of the Canadian Heraldic Authority at Rideau Hall in the City of Ottawa this sixteenth day of September in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, in the fifth year of His Excellency's service and in the forty-eighth year of Her Majesty's reign.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF Judith Anne LaRocque, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Herald Chancellor, and Lieutenant-General James Cyrille Gervais, Commander of the Order of Military Merit, Deputy Herald Chancellor, have witnessed this action with their signatures.

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