Everything about Coat Of Arms Of Nova Scotia totally explained
The
Coat of Arms of the Province of Nova Scotia (formally known as
The Arms of Her Majesty in Right of Nova Scotia), is the oldest provincial achievement of arms in Canada, and the oldest
British coat of arms outside Great Britain. It was granted in
1625 by King
Charles I for the first
Scottish colony on the Canadian mainland. The arms were also borne by the Baronets of Nova Scotia, a chivalric order.
They fell out of use when Nova Scotia joined the
Confederation in
1867, but were restored in
1929 (see below).
Description
The shield, a blue
saltire on a white field, is a simple reversal of the
Scottish flag (a white saltire,
Saint Andrew's
cross, on a blue field). It is also charged with an inescutcheon bearing the royal arms of Scotland, a gold shield with a red rampant lion in a double border decorated with
fleurs de lis.
The
crest is two hands, one naked and the other clad in
armor, holding a
thistle, the emblem of Scotland, and
laurel.
The crest is referred to in the
motto, placed above the shield in a Scottish tradition, which reads
Munit haec et altera vincit (One [hand] defends and the other conquers).
The
supporters are the
unicorn from the royal arms of Scotland which is now borne by the
British monarchy, and a member of the
Mi'kmaq First Nation indigenous to Nova Scotia, who in the heraldic language of the 17th century was blazoned a "savage."
The compartment includes thistles as well as the
trailing arbutus or mayflower, the floral emblem of Nova Scotia, added when the arms were reassumed in 1945.
Former coat of arms
The old arms having been forgotten by Confederation in 1867, a new coat of arms was prepared. This had a
salmon on a blue band between three thistles, on a gold field. When the old coat of arms was rediscovered, pressure to restore it grew, and it was reassumed in 1929, with the newer coat being abandoned.
The 1867-1929 shield may be blazoned
Or, on a fess wavy azure a salmon between three thistles slipped and leaved proper.
The current coat is blazoned as follows:
» Argent a cross of St. Andrew Azure charged with an escutcheon of the Royal Arms of Scotland.
(Note: The Royal Arms of Scotland are, in turn, blazoned
Or a lion rampant within a double tressure fleury-counter-fleury gules.)
» The crest:
On a wreath of the colours, a branch of laurel and a thistle issuing from two hands conjoined the one being armed and the other naked all proper.
» The supporters:
On the dexter an Unicorn Argent armed crined and unguled Or, and gorged with a Coronet composed of crosses patee and fleurs-de-lis, a chain affixed thereto passing through the forelegs and reflexed over the back Gold. And on the sinister a Savage holding in the exterior hand an arrow.
» The motto:
Munit haec et altera vincit.Further Information
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