The Great Seal of Canada is a seal used for official purposes of state in Canada such as the certification of Acts of Parliament that have been granted Royal Assent. A seal can mean a wax seal bearing an impressed figure or an embossed figure in paper with the purpose of authenticating a document but the term can also mean any device for Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page An Act of Parliament is a Law enacted as Primary legislation by a national or sub-national Parliament. The granting of Royal Assent is the formal method by which a constitutional monarch completes the legislative process of Lawmaking by formally assenting to an
The first Great Seal of Canada was carved in United Kingdom in 1869, and sent to Canada to replace a temporary seal which had been used since Canadian Confederation in 1867; it depicted Queen Victoria seated behind a canopy. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Year 1869 ( MDCCCLXIX) is a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Canadian Confederation was the process by which the federal Dominion of Canada was formed beginning 1 July 1867 from the Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901 was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
New seals are prepared whenever a new monarch takes the throne. The current Great Seal was made at the Royal Canadian Mint when Queen Elizabeth II succeeded her father in 1952, and it went into use in 1955. The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM French: Monnaie royale canadienne) produces all of Canada 's circulation Coins and manufactures circulation List of current queens regnant A queen regnant (plural "queens regnant" is qualifying reference to a female Monarch possessing and exercising all of the monarchal For the ship see RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Context States headed by Elizabeth II Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) The seal is made of specially tempered steel, weighs 3. 75 kilograms, and is 127 millimetres in diameter. The Millimetre ( American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to The image represents the Queen enthroned and robed, holding the orb and sceptre, and shows her sitting on the coronation chair with the 1957 version of the Royal Arms of Canada in front, and is incribed Reine du Canada - Elizabeth II - Queen of Canada. The Sovereign's Orb is a type of Regalia known as a Globus cruciger and is one of the British Crown Jewels. The Sceptre with the Cross, also known as the St Edward's Sceptre, the Sovereign's Sceptre or the Royal Sceptre, is a Sceptre of the British The Coat of Arms of Canada (also known as the Royal Arms of Canada or more properly the Arms of His/Her Majesty in Right of Canada) is since 1921 the official The inscriptions on it are in French and English. Previous Great Seals of Canada were inscribed in Latin.
While the Governor General is the keeper of the Great Seal, the Queen's representative places the Great Seal in the protection of the Office of the Registrar General of Canada; the current Registrar General is the Jim Prentice, who came into the position by virtue of also being the Minister of Industry. The Governor General of Canada ( French: Gouverneure générale du Canada, or: Gouverneur général du Canada) is the vice-regal representative The Registrar General of Canada (Registraire général du Canada is responsible for registering all Letters patent, Commissions instruments, Proclamations James "Jim" Prentice, PC, MP (born July 20, 1956, in South Porcupine, Ontario near Timmins) The Minister of Industry is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government's economic development and Each of the provinces also have their own seals, for similar purposes, kept by the lieutenant governors of those provinces. The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the world's second largest country in total area. In Canada, the Lieutenant-Governor (lɛfˈtɛnənt often without a Hyphen) ( French: lieutenant-gouverneur, or: lieutenant-gouverneure
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The Great Seal is protected under the Security of Information Act. Section 5(2)(e) "Unauthorized use of uniforms; falsification of reports, forgery, personation and false documents" states:
| “ | Every person who, without lawful authority or excuse, manufactures or sells, or has in his possession for sale, any die, seal or stamp referred to in subsection (1) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years or by summary conviction and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 12 months or to a fine of not more than $2,000[1] | ” |
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TalkCommonewalth realm.-->The monarchy of Federal and provincial aspects Across the country the Canadian Crown is unitary the headship of state is not a part of either the federal or provincial jurisdictions
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