'CANADIAN 



.PACIFIC/ 



Agricultural and Industrial 

 Progress in Canada 



A monthly review of Agricultural and Industrial progress in Canada, 

 published by the Department of Colonization and Development of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway at Montreal, Canada. 



VOL. 3 No. 12 



MONTREAL 



December, 1921 



The Royal Arms of Canada 



CANADA entered the Great War a 

 country of somewhat doubtful and un- 

 certain standing. She emerged from the 

 conflict a nation, secure in her independence, 

 standing firmly upon her own feet, the equal 

 in council of the bodies politic of the world. 



This status she won 

 by force of arms, by the 

 glorious achievements 

 of her sons upon the field 

 of battle, where, from 

 the outset, she played a 

 nation's part. Her 

 people's gradual concep- 

 tionof this subtle change 

 grew throughout the 

 years of hostilities, and 

 upon their termination 

 Canada set her feet in 

 the ways of peace-time 

 progress, instigated by a 

 new national pride and 

 in a new consciousness 

 of her own greatness. 



It is probable that 

 out of this recognition 

 of new birth sprang the 

 desire for a new coat of 

 arms, which should be 

 distinctly emblematic of 

 the Dominion, and 

 which has resulted in 

 the new Royal Arms 

 illustrated here. These 

 are a variant upon the 



Royal Arms of England, the countries of England, 

 Ireland, Scotland and France being represented 

 on the shield, supported by a lion bearing the 

 Union Jack and a unicorn, bearing the ancient 

 arms of France. Beneath is the motto "A mari 

 usque ad mare." (From sea to sea.) 



Thus the new insignia illustrates the re- 

 lationship of the Dominion to the British 

 Empire and perpetuates the two great races 

 which have formed the main sources of the 



THE ROYAL ARMS OF CANADA 



origin of her people. Pithily the motto sug- 

 gests Canada's vast extent. 



Writing on this subject, Prof. Percy E. 

 Nobbs of McGill University says : "Whilst the 

 feeling of the Canadian people would appear to 

 be decidedly against titular honors and the 

 interest in personal coats of arms is slight, many 

 Canadian cities and towns have adopted their 



own coats of arms, these 

 in some instances being 

 registered at the College 

 of Heralds in London. 

 All the provinces, both 

 new and old, have 

 beautiful and appro- 

 priate coats of arms, 

 duly granted, and used 

 to the full by provincial 

 governments both as 

 decorations to public 

 printing and on occa- 

 sions as flags. 



" The Federal au- 

 thority has, however, 

 up till recently, been 

 less well furnished, and 

 the maple leaf, the 

 beaver, the arms of the 

 first four provinces to 

 federate marshalled to- 

 gether on a quartered 

 field, and, last but not 

 least, a marshalled coat 

 of arms of all the nine 

 provinces have all been 

 used as a symbol of 

 sovereignty in a rather 

 indiscriminate fashion." 



Now, however, a uniform emblem is decided 

 and granted for all time, to symbalize the 

 confederated provinces of the Dominion of 

 Canada wherever seen or encountered. 



The democratic spirit which permeates the 

 Canadian people does not favor private titles 

 or the universal pomp of heraldry or any phase 

 anomalous from that true democracy which is 

 Canadian national life. But Canadians take 



