Professor Shark posted:

My home province has a pretty badass coat of arms:



Nova Scotia (New Scotland, hence the simple reversal of color from the Scottish flag and plopping the Scottish coat of arms down inescutcheon (shield in the middle of a shield))

This was the original coat of arms when the province was founded, but apparently people simply forgot about it and eventually the government made up their own and used this visual monstrosity:



It was used for a long time, but thankfully someone rediscovered the original arms.