As with any company’s logo, a coat of arms is a way of “branding”.  It represents us, depicting elements of our identity.  Here is both the image of our coat of arms, and a description of its many elements:

- in the upper portion, we have in the centre the cross, spear and sponge, with the crown of thorns, taken from the coat of arms of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate who were the first ones to bring the gospel to the territory of the archdiocese;
- the eagle feather is a First Nations symbol of strength;
- the fleur-de-lys speaks of the French roots of most of the early Oblates who ministered among the Natives and early European settlers;
- in the lower portion of the shield, the background colours are those of the medicine wheel, symbolic among the First Nations of the four directions and the four races of humanity;
- the cloak is that of St. Martin of Tours, the patron saint of the Archdiocese.  Hagiographers tell of St. Martin sharing his cloak with a poor beggar; later in a dream, Christ appeared to Martin wearing the cloak;
- the white rose is symbolic of St. Therese of Lisieux, patron of the missions and patron of the Ecclesiastical Province of Grouard-McLennan.

The Archdiocesan Coat of Arms was developed in 2009.