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Registration:
Bureau of Heraldry
(South Africa),
registration,
certificate 2148,
February 9, 1990.
Private
Registration:
American College of
Heraldry, registration
number 893, The Heraldic
Register of America,
Volume Five, June 4,
1990.
The
armiger designed and
assumed these arms as a
university student. When
the Canadian Heraldic
Authority was
established, he
petitioned for the arms
to be granted to him. He
became the second
Chinese Canadian to
receive a grant of arms
from the Canadian
Heraldic Authority,
preceded only by the
Hon. David See-Chai Lam,
Lieutenant Governor of
British Columbia.
The colours combine the
traditional colours of
China (red and gold),
the German Empire of
1871 to 1918 (black,
white, red), and Canada
(red and white). The
German Imperial colours
and the black eagle are
symbols of Germany,
referring to the
armiger's home town of
Kitchener, Ontario,
which was known as
Berlin before World War
I. The eagle holds a
key, a medieval symbol
of accountants. The
"bezant pierced square"
resembles an old Chinese
coin, another symbol of
the armiger's accounting
profession. The dragon
is another symbol of
China, and the maple
leaf is a symbol of
Canada.
The blazon developed and
registered by the South
African Bureau of
Heraldry is:
Arms: Gules, on a bend
Sable fimbriated Or,
between in chief a
bezant pierced square
and in base a maple leaf
Or, a Chinese dragon
passant Argent, langued
Gules.
It
differs slightly from
the Canadian blazon in
that it: specifies the
mantling to be red and
white instead of red and
gold; it does not
specify the number of
claws on each paw of the
dragon, so the dragon
can conceivably be drawn
with four claws per paw.
The illustration shown
here is drawn by artist
Tina Olah according to
the South African
blazon.
Ms. Olah's illustration
shows two of the
armiger's decorations
suspended from the
shield: the decoration
of an Officer of the
Most Venerable Order of
the Hospital of St. John
of Jerusalem and the
Golden Order of Merit of
the Japanese Red Cross.
The armiger designed his
badge by combining the
Chinese coin from his
coat of arms with the
sun in splendour, a
European heraldic
device. The badge is
also reminiscent of
another Chinese symbol,
the twelve-ray sun that
is the national emblem
of the Republic of
China.
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The
armiger is a
chartered
accountant, an
Officer of the
Most Venerable
Order of
Hospital of St.
John of
Jerusalem, and a
Vice-Chair of
the Library
Committee of the
Royal Canadian
Military
Institute. He
has Master's
degrees in
Accounting
(University of
Waterloo) and
Military Studies
(American
Military
University).
Brereton C.
Jones, Governor
of Kentucky,
commissioned him
as an honorary
Colonel on the
Governor's
staff. He is
also an author
of science
fiction novels
and stories, one
of which,
"Transubstantiation",
won the Aurora
Award, Canada's
national award
for science
fiction.
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