List of Canadian provincial and territorial symbols
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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates This is a list of the symbols of the provinces and territories of Canada. Each province and territory has a unique set of official symbols.<ref name=Provincial>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Provinces and territories
| Name | Flag | Coat of arms | Escutcheon | Bird | Animal (mammal) | Fish | Flower | Tree | Mineral | Motto | Other | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alberta<ref name=AB>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Great horned owl | Bighorn sheep | Bull trout | Wild rose | Lodgepole pine | Petrified wood | Fortis et liber (strong and free) |
Provincial grass: rough fescue, song: "Alberta", gemstone: ammolite | ||||
| British Columbia<ref name="BC">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Steller's jay | Spirit bear | Pacific salmon | Pacific dogwood | Western redcedar | Jade | Splendor sine occasu (splendour without diminishment) |
Provincial fossil: Elasmosaur | ||||
| Manitoba<ref name=MB>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Great grey owl | Plains bison | Walleye | Prairie crocus | White spruce | – | Gloriosus et liber (glorious and free) |
Provincial grass: big bluestem, fossil: Tylosaurus pembinensis, soil: Newdale soil (Orthic Black Chernozem) | ||||
| New Brunswick<ref name=NB>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Black-capped chickadee | – | – | Purple violet | Balsam fir | – | Spem reduxit (hope was restored) |
Provincial soil: Holmesville, Salmon Fly: Picture Province<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |
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| Newfoundland and Labrador<ref name=NL>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Atlantic puffin (provincial bird) Willow ptarmigan Rock ptarmigan (game bird) |
Woodland caribou (Newfoundland regimental mascot) Newfoundland pony (heritage animal) |
– | Purple pitcher plant | Black spruce | Labradorite | Quaerite primum regnum dei (seek ye first the kingdom of God) |
Anthem: "Ode to Newfoundland", Newfoundland Tricolour, Labrador flag | ||||
| Northwest Territories<ref name="NT">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Gyrfalcon | – | Arctic grayling | Mountain avens | Tamarack larch | Gold | – | Territorial gemstone: diamond | ||||
| Nova Scotia<ref name=NS>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Osprey | Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Sable Island horse |
Brook trout | Mayflower | Red spruce | Stilbite | Munit haec et altera vincit (one defends and the other conquers) |
Sailing ambassador: Bluenose II, Nova Scotia tartan; berry: wild blueberry; fossil: Hylonomus lyelli; gemstone: agate | ||||
| Nunavut<ref name="NU">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Rock ptarmigan | Canadian Inuit Dog | – | Purple saxifrage | – | – | Nunavut Sanginivut (Our land, our strength) |
– | ||||
| Ontario<ref name="Ontario">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Flag of Ontario | Coat of arms of Ontario | File:Arms of Ontario.svg | Common loon | – | – | White trillium | Eastern white pine | Amethyst | Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet (loyal she began thus she remains) |
||
| Prince Edward Island<ref name=PE>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Flag of Prince Edward Island | Coat of arms of Prince Edward Island | File:Arms of Prince Edward Island.svg | Blue jay | Red fox<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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– | Lady's slipper | Red oak | – | Parva sub ingenti (the small under the protection of the great) |
Provincial soil: Charlottetown; anthem: "The Island Hymn" |
| Quebec<ref name="QC">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Flag of Quebec | Coat of arms of Quebec | File:Arms of Québec.svg | Snowy owl | – | – | Blue flag iris | Yellow birch | – | Je me souviens (I remember) |
Provincial symbol: fleur-de-lis | |
| Saskatchewan<ref name=SK>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Flag of Saskatchewan | Coat of arms of Saskatchewan | File:Shield of arms of Saskatchewan.svg | Sharp-tailed grouse | White-tailed deer | Walleye | Western red lily | White birch | Potash | Multis e gentibus vires (from many peoples, strength) |
Provincial grass: needle-and-thread grass, fruit emblem: Saskatoon berry, Fossil: Tyrannosaurus rex | |
| Yukon<ref name="YU">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Flag of Yukon | Coat of arms of Yukon | File:Coat of arms of Yukon (escutcheon).svg | Common raven | – | – | Fireweed | Subalpine fir | Lazulite | – | – |
See also
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- Coat of arms of Canada
- List of Canadian flags
- National symbols of Canada
- Canadian Red Ensign
- Regional tartans of Canada
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