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Hart House
St. Bart's
Queen's Beasts
The Greaves Canadian Heraldic Dictionary


Term | Source | Meaning | Illustration |
Fan | Wilgress | A Canadian term for a display of feathers – a variant of the more traditional plume (in British heraldry, the term fan usually refers to a winnowing-fan). | ![]() |
Fenghuang | Wong Kung Har Wun Sun Association. Vol VI, P 56 | ![]() |
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Ferruginous Hawk | Town of Morinville, Alberta. Vol IV, P 281 | ![]() |
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Fiddlehead Coronet | McCain, M.N., Vol III, P 22 | ![]() |
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Field Battery Gun | Rigby, F.N., (Banner) Vol V, P 128 | ![]() |
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Fireweed - Heraldic | Yukon Territory (Flag) Vol VI, P 11 | ![]() |
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Fireweed Flower - Natural | Provincial Flowers of Canada | ![]() |
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Flatbed Printing Press | Clarke, C. J.oseph. Vol II, P 369 | The Flatbed Press, in which the paper is compressed between two flat surfaces, one of them with inked type, goes back in Europe to the late Middle ages. It has been largely replaced by the much larger, electric presses of today, but is still used for hand-printing small or very specialized runs of print. It alludes to the family’s association with newspapers and journalism. | ![]() |
Flint Spearhead | HMCS Anticosti (Badge) Vol II, P 407 | ![]() |
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Flotant | Gary A. Mitchell | ![]() |
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Fly Fishing Rod | Clements, G.R. Vol III, P 130 | ![]() |
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Foil | St. Paul's Cathedral, Regina | The blazon of the arms notes "foils of poplar " as being on the bordure. Here the word foil has been coined to refer to the outline or shape of a stemmed leaf, without veins or other features, on the same principle as the terms trefoil and cinquefoil, which refer to multi-lobed leaves (Latin folium). The shape, as indicated, is that of a poplar leaf. | ![]() |
Fox, Arctic | Melançon, R.F., Vol VI, P 89 | ![]() |
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Franciscan Cord | Assoc. des Bourgeois de Descendance Acadienne. Vol VI, P 274 | ![]() |
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