New Governors General Crest

[Omicron]

You know the story... you're sitting at your desk, you pause to take a sip of coffee, your mind wanders into wondering why Saskatchewan agronomists haven't made a strain of coffee that will grow at this latitude in order to put some breaks on all the capital outflow happening from Canada's addicted to Tim Hortons, and you find yourself gazing at the Governor General's Crest, noticing once again how anachronistically irrelevant it is in the context of a temperate, New World nation.

So you think, check your schedule, crack some software, and make a new GG Crest.

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I know it needs some work by a professional design artists, but what's the feedback?

 

[Ron in Regina]

Can you do the same with a Beaver?

Can you do the same with a Beaver?

re: the O.P...

 

[lone wolf]

Beaver'd be cool.... Then we can change our motto to "Dam You"

 

[CDNBear]

Beaver'd be cool.... Then we can change our motto to "Dam You"

Or "Eat me", depending on what Beaver you went with.

 

[Omicron]

Okay, all the comments suggesting Beaver are respected, but let me explain why I didn't use it, because that *had* crossed my mind.

The GG is supposed represent the Crown, which is symbolic of strength and authority, so a powerful animal is what's supposed to be there... that's why they chose a lion in the first place.

The Beaver is what you'd want to use as the symbol for the House, where they're supposed to be busy, building a nation like beavers build a damn...

No?

 

[CDNBear]

Okay, all the comments suggesting Beaver are respected, but let me explain why I didn't use it, because that *had* crossed my mind.

The GG is supposed represent the Crown, which is symbolic of strength and authority, so a powerful animal is what should be in there.

The Beaver is what you'd want to use as the symbol for the House, where they're supposed to be busy, building a nation like beavers build a damn...

No?

You've never watched a Beaver take down hardwood have you?

 

[lone wolf]

...or render a couple of hundred acres useless...

 

[CDNBear]

...or clear cut a forest...

 

[lone wolf]

You wanna see patrols? Just stand around a fresh gap in Bucky's dam....

 

[CDNBear]

You wanna see patrols? Just stand around a fresh gap in Bucky's dam....

 

[Omicron]

...or render a couple of hundred acres useless...

Well, yeah, I knew that was a possible connotation of using the beaver as a symbol of the House, which was another reason why I'd recommend reserving the beaver to be a symbol of parliament (you caught that fast). One summer I did some work for a farmer that included dealing with beavers, and it's curious how tenacious those things can be once they make up their mind where they want to live. "Pelting" them ended up being the only solution.

But, now that I think about it, I know French Canadians who are still annoyed about how the beaver used to be their symbol and how it got co-opted away from them by the rest of Canada (they feel the same way about the maple leaf, for that matter) so, for the House, maybe the symbol should be... the Crow.

 

[CDNBear]

Well, yeah, I knew that was a possible connotation of using the beaver as a symbol of the House, which was another reason why I'd recommend reserving the beaver to be a symbol of parliament (you caught that fast).

But, now that I think about it, I know French Canadians who are still annoyed about how the beaver used to be their symbol, and they think it co-opted away from them by the rest of Canada (they feel about the maple leaf, for that matter) so, for the House, maybe the symbol should be... the Crow.

How about the seagull. Since the position is like a scavenging sh!thawk anyways.

Or even better, since Harpo should be fuhrer, what about the wehrmacht iron eagle!!!???

 

[lone wolf]

Not so sure crow's a good idea either....



Thanks to Cousin Sue for that one....

Shadowshiv.... Got your solution here!

 

[CDNBear]

To bad we can't use those cool Eagles, to much like those big bad M'mericans.

I know, how about the...

Not the wiley wild Turkey, but the confused, white, foul smelling, bound for slaughter, domestic Turkey.

 

[Omicron]

Not so sure crow's a good idea either....



Thanks to Cousin Sue for that one....

Shadowshiv.... Got your solution here!

Right... okee dokee...

Well, there's enough French Canadians in parliament, and most of the rest are bilingual, to justify using the beaver as the symbol of Parliament.

Now within Parliament there are three houses, the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons.

Leaving the Monarch alone because I don't want to get into it right now, other than to recommend the Crest of the vice-regent have the lion replaced with a polar-bear, what would be the best animal to represent just the Senate, and what would be best to represent just the House of Commons?

 

[lone wolf]

They're Canadian citizens ... from near Kenora, I believe. I'll have to ask Sue....

How about a pair of asses?

 

[CDNBear]

what would be the best animal to represent just the Senate,

Seagull's.

and what would be best to represent just the House of Commons?

Dump Bears.

They're Canadian citizens ... from near Kenora, I believe. I'll have to ask Sue....

Ya but we're Canadian, we can't a symbol that the big bad US of Yay has.

How about a pair of asses?

A joint crest?

What an excellent idea.

Throw in a scavenging seagul for the monarch and we have a wiener!!!

 

[lone wolf]

Ya but we're Canadian, we can't a symbol that the big bad US of Yay has.

Ahhhh ... I see.... The eagles are sharing a meal of crow (or raven, Sue said)

I do like the joint thingy....

 

[Omicron]

How about a pair of asses?

Already used by the Americans...

Hmm... How about Seagulls (common, make a lot of noise) for Commons and Canada Goose (fat, well groomed, like to nest a lot) for the Senate?

 

[CDNBear]

Ahhhh ... I see.... The eagles are sharing a meal of crow (or raven, Sue said)

See, ven Eagles can admit they're wrong, lmao!!!

I do like the joint thingy....

So do I, kinda like a Larry Moe and Curly thing.