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Old 03-28-2009, 11:39 PM
Elephant Walk Elephant Walk is offline
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We have a helmet at the top of our coat of arms but our Canadian chapters are not allowed to utilize a helmet in the coat of arms because it depicts royalty and their history with Britain and the Queen prohibits it. So, our Canadian chapters have a slightly different version.
I think it's obvious, but to my knowledge that's the case with most fraternities/sororities in Canada.
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Old 03-29-2009, 10:22 AM
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I think it's obvious, but to my knowledge that's the case with most fraternities/sororities in Canada.
I'm not familiar enough with other coats of arms to know that very many had helmets, particularly those with chapters in Canada. Good to know that there are others as well.
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Old 03-31-2009, 07:26 PM
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I think it's obvious, but to my knowledge that's the case with most fraternities/sororities in Canada.

actually, our northern brothers do still showcase the helmet on our coat of arms. i don't know if they were always allowed to, but i know they do now.
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