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Blazon

Azure, a seme-de-lis or, the head and shoulders of a young woman wearing a cap and shoulder scarf of the period (1755) all in the colour of a cameo stone.
(Glossary of Heraldic Terms)

Significance

Set on the background of the old French, and therefore Acadian, emblems, the gold fleur-de-lis on a blue field, is the stylized cameo portrait of an 18thcentury woman, who might well be Longfellow's Evangeline.

Remarks

Acadia was originally a Dominion Hydrographic Survey Vessel which was commissioned into the RCN in January 1917. She was paid off in March 1919, but was recommissioned in October 1939, and finally paid off in November 1945.

Colours

Gold and blue

References

Badges Of The Canadian Navy by Arbuckle, J. Graeme. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1987.