things you find when you're googling people...

Who knew that my father's coat-of-arms was on the internet? I googled him and there it was. It's in the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada.

As it turns out, my arms and my brother's are there too (but without the helms and crests). Here's mine:

Here's our badge, and a link to the Canadian Heraldic Authority to round out this post:



PS: Our arms are cited in a wikipedia article (here) because they contain an example of an "exotic line" (exotic by heraldic standards, at least). The repeated blue and white fir-tree lines on the bottom left halves of our shields (they look like rows of pine trees - get it? - wood rows?) are what they're talking about.