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The following explicitly grant use of the material on their website:

Newfoundland and Labrador [1] - EXCEPT for the coat of arms (see below)

The following explicitly grant use of the material on their website for non-commercial/educational/etc. use:

Alberta [2]
Ontario [3]
Quebec [4]
Saskatchewan [5] - EXCEPT for the coat of arms and other visual identity elements (see below)
Yukon [6]

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New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Northwest Territories

The following require permission before any material on their website may be used:

British Columbia [7]
Newfoundland and Labrador - in the case of the coat of arms [8]
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Split

List of U.S. state insignia splits symbols into seperate lists. Why can't Canadian provinces do the same. If we do the split this could turn into a disambiguation page. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 22:00, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would suggest that if it's split then it be done by territory and province rather than the way the US one is done. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:57, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why? All the articles would be is stubs, unless we can expand on it. But if the current information was split now (without making seperate sections and copy and pasting from the articles of the mentioned symbols), they would be stubs. Disinclination 00:50, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why not do both? Kevlar67 05:22, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What would be the reason and/or purpose and/or benefits of splitting? (I'm only asking so I understand what we're trying to achieve here).

How about a summary table like this:

Province	Flower	Bird	Animal	Tree	Gemstone	Motto
Alberta	Wild rose	Great Horned Owl	Big Horn Sheep	Lodgepole Pine	Ammolite	Fortis et liber
British Columbia	Pacific dogwood	Steller's Jay	Spirit bear	Western Redcedar	Jade	Splendor sine occasu
Manitoba	Prairie crocus	Great Grey Owl	Bison	White Spruce	none	Gloriosus et liber

--Qyd 22:39, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I added summary tables for provinces / territories. Now it seams to make sense to split the article by provinces, and keep this one as an overview. Thoughts? --Qyd 17:53, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well I moved the content to separate pages: Symbols of Alberta, Symbols of British Columbia, Symbols of Manitoba, Symbols of Newfoundland and Labrador, Symbols of New Brunswick, Symbols of Nova Scotia, Symbols of Ontario, Symbols of Quebec, Symbols of Prince Edward Island, Symbols of Saskatchewan, Symbols of Northwest Territories, Symbols of Nunavut and Symbols of Yukon. They are stubs for now,but can be expanded. --Qyd 18:53, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Order

I'm wondering what the order of the provinces and territories is in the initial table. It's clearly not alphabetical, and it doesn't seem to be in order of when each province\territory joined the confederation. On that note, I know the columns are numerous as it is, but should there be a column for when they joined confederation? --Thaddius 12:54, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They seem to be in a West-to-East geographical ordering. This is a common ordering to use in Canada when discussing each province in turn. This works because the provinces are (mostly) arranged in a linear geographical fashion. Its often a useful ordering when discussing something that can be thought of as a "mental trip" across Canada. For example, it is a useful ordering when discussing the changing geography across Canada. (The geography of the Atlantic Provinces are not arranged linearly in real life, of course, but a common thing, in my experience, is to tack on PEI and Newfoundland & Labrador last. So: BC AB SK MB ON QC NB NS PE NL. Of course, the reverse East-to-West ordering is also common.

In my experience, this is how Canadians memorize the provinces, just by picturing them in their geographic "row". This works well for the Canadian provinces but not for the US States (which I think are memorized as an alphabetical list) because there are much fewer provinces and because the provinces are generally naturally in a geographic "line", unlike the uneven "grid" of US States.

Having said all that, it seems to me that a geographical ordering of the provinces is unnecessary and unnatural for the type of information listed in this article. I suggest an alphabetical ordering as much better here. --thirty-seven 21:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The table has sort buttons, so it can be arranged alphabetically. --Qyd 00:30, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong 'Fleur'

The fleur de lys image shown for the Province of Quebec is wrong. The Quebecois fleur de lys is SILVER, not gold. Silver is represented in heraldry with the colour white.

The Quebec flag, for example, is an arrangment of heraldic symbols - typically described as a white cross on a blue field, with a white fleur de lys in each quarter. In fact, the cross and the fleurs are silver; but in heraldic artwork, as noted, silver is represented by white. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.244.43.13 (talk) 02:23, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Capital of Ontario

The capital of Ontario is Ottawa.... Did an American write this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.250.112.77 (talk) 18:41, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps it was an American, but they knew what they were talking about. The capital of Canada is Ottawa, the capital of Ontario is Toronto. Nadiatalent (talk) 20:13, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea what the symbol is — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.250.106.122 (talk) 04:51, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Source for Red Fox as National Animal Insufficient

If you follow the source linked, you can see in the article that the Red Fox has only passed a "second reading" and still need more to become official: "The bill still has to be called for third reading before it can receive royal assent."

So there are at least two more steps before this is an official animal. The Canadian government has a list of all of the national/provincial/territorial symbols nested in the first reference on this page.

(Sorry if this isn't what I'm supposed to do, I'm new.) Reyweld (talk) 21:00, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay actually it IS now the official animal, here is a better source. I'm a brand-new user so I don't want to edit the main article.