Civic Heraldry Literature - Canada

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This page shows the sources used, or to be used, on the Canadian part of the site Heraldry of the World. Not all the information from the literature mentioned below has been added to the site yet. If you require information from one of the sources below, please contact me.

I am always looking more more, local, literature, such as newspaper articles etc. If you want to donate these, please send them as pdf or contact me !

Posters, websites, mails/letters, stamps, postcards, maps and similar sources are not included. For an overview of heraldic picture albums, tobacco cards, trade cards, stamps etc, see here)

Books and references

1. Bretton, R. : The arms of the city of Ottawa. Coat of Arms 27(1956)112-113.
2. Chadwick, E.M. : The arms of Canada. Genealogical Magazine 2(1898)291-293.
3. Garneau, S. : La faune dans les armoiries municipales de Québec. Heraldry in Canada 12(2017)25-28.
4. Kennedy, B.E. : An Armorial Mystery - The Origin and History of the Armorial Achievement of the City of Guelph, Ontario, used by the City Corporation before 1978. Alta Studia Heraldica 2(2009)117-136.
5. Lofft, J.S. : Solving the mystery of the origin and history of the armorial achievement of the County of Wellington, Ontario. Coat of Arms 238(2021)75-89.
6. Mackie, C.S.T.: The Canadian Law of Arms - Part II: The Provinces. Alta Studia Heraldica 3(2010)55-76
7. Sherwood Hodgins, G. : The heraldry of Canada. papers and Records Vol. XIV of the Ontario Historical Society. Toronto, 1916. 25 p. No ISBN.
8. Stewart, J.A. : The arms of Nova Scotia. Coat of Arms 6(1951)203.
9. Stewart, J. E. : The arms of Nova Scotia 1621-1921. Glasgow, Saint Andrew Society, 1921, no ISBN, 45 p.
10. Swan, C.M.J.F. : The armorial bearings of the Assumption University of Windsor. Coat of Arms 36(1958)115-117.
11. Swan, C.M.J.F. : Canada: symbols of sovereignity. Toronto, Univ. of Toronto Press, 1977. 272p. ISBN 0-8020-5346-7.
12. Watt, R. D. : Les armoiries de Nunavut. Schweizer Archiv für Heraldik, 113(1999)157-159.