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Design Rationale:
Purple is a colour of the armiger’s university, Wilfrid Laurier
University, and his wife’s university, Western Ontario. Gold is his
favorite color. 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. |
