Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 23rd August
2008. Registration No.
0137.
Arms:
Per saltire Purpure and
Or, in chief a golden
retriever's head erased
and in base a
hunting-horn Or stringed
and virolled Argent
Crest:
A beaver
sejant Or gorged of a
Loyalist military
coronet Purpure, resting
its sinister paw on a
fleur-de-lis Argent
Motto:
DISCE INTELLEGE SERVI.
Grant:
Canadian Heraldic
Authority, Volume V Page
321 of the Public
Register of Arms, Flags
and Badges of Canada;
15th July 2008.
Private
Registration:
US Heraldic Registry
#20080813A, 13th August
2008.
Design Rationale: Purple is a colour of the
armiger’s university,
Wilfrid Laurier
University, and his
wife’s university,
Western Ontario. Gold is
his favourite colour.
The hunting-horn is
found in Scottish
Forrester arms, and it
makes a reference to the
name. The golden
retriever is his
favourite dog breed. The
beaver is a symbol of
Canada and, as a builder
of lodges, also
represents the armiger’s
involvement in
Freemasonry. The
fleur-de-lis represents
his service to the world
Scouting movement; it is
also found in Scottish
Morrison arms, an
allusion to his wife's
maiden name. She and the
armiger’s mother were
both born in Quebec,
which is also
represented by the
fleur-de-lis. The
Loyalist military
coronet refers to the
armiger’s ancestor, who
fought for the Crown in
the 1st Regiment of the
Westchester County
Militia during the
American Revolutionary
War. The fact that the
beaver is holding the
fleur-de-lis with its
left paw indicates that
he is left-handed.
Born and raised outside Toronto Canada,
the armiger graduated
from Wilfrid Laurier
University in Waterloo
Canada with an honours
Bachelor of Business
Administration degree.
He also holds a Master
of Business
Administration degree
from Bowling Green
University in Bowling
Green, Ohio USA, and a
Master of Science degree
in project management
from the University of
Wisconsin at
Platteville, Wisconsin
USA. The armiger has
further earned
designations as a
Project Management
Professional (PMP) from
the Project Management
Institute and a
Chartered Manager (CMgr)
from the Chartered
Management Institute
(CMI) in the UK.
Professionally, the
armiger is a senior
executive for a global
Fortune 500 company in
Ohio USA. He is husband
to his childhood
sweetheart, father to
two wonderful children,
a Mason, a Scouter, and
a HAM, with an interest
in heraldry and
genealogy.
