Heraldry
Heraldry () is a broad term, encompassing the design, display, and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank, and pedigree. Armory, the best-known branch of heraldry, concerns the design and transmission of the heraldic achievement. The achievement, or armorial bearings usually includes a coat of arms on a shield, helmet, and crest, together with any accompanying devices, such as supporters, badges, heraldic banners, and mottoes.Although the use of various devices to signify individuals and groups goes back to antiquity, both the form and use of …
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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 November 2024 English
Andy Weaver led a life of quiet contemplation before becoming a father at the age of 42. Within three years he had two sons; two small, relentless disruptions to an …
haughty indifference associated with ancient heraldry or the forgotten art of the soothsayers who read …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 October 2023 English
World War II veteran Hank Dunfield is about to turn one hundred years old. The staff at Ponderosa Pine Lodge have recruited Sarah, a young nursing student, to keep Hank …
of the regiments of the army. Each developed heraldry, official mottos, and sometimes associations … (Ghost) Squadron stands out for its fatalistic heraldry, featuring a skeletal ghost. Most sources suggest …
RDI: Rural Development Institute · 7 June 2022 English
The style, believed to have originated at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the 1300s, derived from the common religious and academic garb of the time. [...] The Originally donated by …
ARMS Steeped in the deeply symbolic meanings of heraldry, the Brandon University Coat of Arms was originally …
CHB: Coach House Books · 2020 English
Swivelmount's concerns - the collapse of subject and world, eros and law, knowledge and bafflement - gain new urgency as Babstock fiercely reimagines and reassembles the remnants into a viable …
run the river bed’s gauntlet. ‘Displayed,’ in heraldry. The Sugarcubes’ B-side cover, ‘Top of the …
Muttart Foundation · 2 November 2019 English
TORONTO ON 65,982 44,808,737 65,982 0.15 Canadian charities reporting foreign funding 40 Based on T3010 data for fiscal years ending in 2016 Foreign Funding Foreign NOT Total Foreign as % …
SWAN RIVER MB 4,570 100,000 4,570 4.57 THE ROYAL HERALDRY SOCIETY OF CANADA/LA 2001 SOCIETE ROYALE HERA LDIQUE DU CANADA …
Muttart Foundation · 8 October 2019 English
TORONTO ON 513,957 6,565,450 513,957 7.83 263 COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA OTTAWA ON 507,350 17,138,784 507,350 2.96 264 CANADIAN LIVER FOUNDATION MARKHAM ON 505,607 7,162,151 505,607 7.06 265 STEPHEN LEWIS …
SWAN RIVER MB 4,570 100,000 4,570 4.57 THE ROYAL HERALDRY SOCIETY OF CANADA/LA 2001 SOCIETE ROYALE HERA LDIQUE DU CANADA …
ANV: Anvil Press · 26 October 2018 English
The Shining by Stanley Kubrick - that strange story in which a writer and his wife and young son with ESP stay in a mysterious hotel in low season - …
well-known symbol was an homage to Imperial Germany’s heraldry, the famous black eagle in a triumphant pose. … very subject of that work […] [as] the device of heraldry that consists in setting in the escutcheon a smaller … * * * I like the idea of a box of cereal as heraldry. Who knows whether, when I was seven, a child …
desLibris · 10 July 2018 English
This warmth comes in part from the various woods found throughout the chambers and the deep carvings.1 Among the many points of interest in these quarters are the heraldic emblems …
s-of-wisdom/WordsOfWisdom-e Introduction 3 4 Heraldry In the Middle Ages knights were known to be bold … bodies. Their profession became known as heraldry. The word “heraldry” comes from the term “herald” and it … shield in place. THE COLOURFUL STORY BEHIND 5 Heraldry has become recognized as a vibrant expression … the heritage and values that speak of Canada. Heraldry crossed the Atlantic when English and French explorers … Britain. Throughout the 1900s, the popularity of heraldry in Canada spread far and wide. Municipalities …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 2018 English
An integral part of Canada’s political culture, the constitutional monarchy has evolved over the 150 years since Confederation to become a uniquely Canadian institution. Canada inherited the constitutional monarchy from …
sovereign. Canada led the way in “nationalizing” heraldry, starting with a personal standard or flag for …
desLibris · 30 November 2017 English
'This National Standard of Canada states the minimum requirements and test methods for performance of protective workwear worn for protection against unplanned exposure to hydrocarbon flash fire and optionally steam …
relative to work activity – Non–flame resistant heraldry attached to the exterior of the garment (e.g. …