these Presents shall come or whom the same in any way concern,
GREETING:
BY Robert Douglas Watt, Chief Herald of Canada;
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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