HMCS Gatineau, Royal Canadian Navy

HMCS GATINEAU, ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY

Official blazon

Vert a bend wavy argent charged with two like cotisses bendlets azure, debruised with a sun in slendour or which is charged with a beaver sable. / De sinople, à la bande ondée d'argent, chargée de deux cotices semblables à bendelettes d'azur et brochant sur le tout un soleil d'or chargé d'un castor se sable.
Motto: In hoc catino potestas

Origin/meaning

The Waves symbolises the namegiving River. The green background refers to the forests and recreational areas of the Valley. The Beaver represents the fur-trader and civic official Nicolas Gatineau or Gastineau. He drowned in the River about 1683 when on a fur-trading expedition,the River which then was knownas Riviere du Nord then began to be called after him. The Motto translates as "In this ship lies power".

Literature: Sent by the Canadian Embassy in Oslo.