HANNEN, The Venerable Peter D., FRHSC
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SYMBOLISM
OF THE ARMORIAL BEARINGS OF
The Venerable Peter D. HANNEN, FRHSCThe arms were a posthumous Scottish grant (presumably one of the last to a Canadian, before the establishment of the Canadian Heraldic Authority) to my father, the Hon. Mr Justice F.Raymond Hannen. For reasons known best to himself, the Lord Lyon of the day (1988) decided that the arms should be based on those of the Hanhams of Gloucestershire: quarterly Gules and Or, on a bend Sable three crosses pattée Argent in bend. These crosses were replaced by two bendlets, representing the railway (CPR) for which the grantee's father had worked, and three ermine points, for the fur trade which had brought all our Scottish forebears to Canada in the late 18th C. At least one of these forebears took up with "a woman of the country", from whom we are descended - - hence the arrows in the crest; the other elements of the crest are derived from other aspects of my father's life and ancestry: e.g., McGillivrays (cross crosslet fitchée), United Empire Loyalists (cross pattée), residence in Quebec (flory).( For some reason the Campbell ancestors were omitted!) The motto (in French, for Quebec) was my father's advice to me: "I don't care what you do in life, as long as you're useful ("Utile") and happy ("content")"
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