Gloucester (Ontario)

Heraldry of the World Civic heraldry of Canada

GLOUCESTER

Province : Ontario

Official blazon

Arms: Or on a cross raguly Vert a maple leaf between in fess two garbs Or and in pale two cog wheels Argent
Crest: Issuant from a mural crown Argent charged with a torteau thereon a Trillium flower Argent barbed and seeded proper a maple tree Or the trunk enfiled through a belt Vert the buckle Or
Motto: JUSTUS UT ACER

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on June 22, 1999.

The cross in these arms symbolises the Christian settlers who founded the town; it is raguly to show that it was "hewn from the forest". Industry and agriculture are represented by the wheat sheaves and the cogs. Ontario is represented by the gold maple leaf (and by the green and gold colour scheme). The crest contains a gold maple tree (symbolic again of Ontario and of growth), a green belt (the national capital's greenbelt) and a red roundel (from the arms of Gloucestershire, England).

The motto loosely translates as "Justice shall flourish like the maple".

Literature : Image and information taken from http://www.gg.ca