1. Lieutenant-Commander Alan Brookman Beddoe, OC, OBE, HFHS, FHSC was a Canadian artist, war artist, consultant in heraldry and founder and first president of the Heraldry Society of Canada in 1965.
17 Facts About Alan Beddoe
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Alan Beddoe studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
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Alan Beddoe's fonds include slides, colour transparencies, prints, watercolours and drawings related to Canadian heraldry.
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The artist originally chosen for the job, James Purves, died in 1940, at which time Alan Beddoe took on the task.
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Alan Beddoe supervised a team of artists for about the next 2 years to illuminate and hand-letter the books, listing the names of Canadians who died in Canada's military service during World War I and after World War II he supervised another team of artists to create the Book of Remembrance for World War II.
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Alan Beddoe was inducted to the OBE and received the Allied Arts Medal awarded by the Royal Architectural Institute for his work on the Books of Remembrance and made an officer of the Order of Canada.
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Alan Beddoe designed badges for over 180 ships and establishments of the Royal Canadian Navy.
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Alan Beddoe painted watercolours of the coats of arms for Canada, provinces and territories.
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Alan Beddoe's fonds include preliminary sketches for the coat of arms of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Yukon.
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Alan Beddoe painted watercolours of municipal coats of arms for many Canadian municipalities.
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Alan Beddoe's fonds include the designs for the Township of Esquimalt, the City of Victoria, British Columbia, the City of Hamilton, Ontario and the Township of Gloucester, Ontario.
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Alan Beddoe designed coats of arms for a number of university coats of arms including Memorial University of Newfoundland, the University of Moncton and the University of Manitoba.
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Alan Beddoe designed the coats of arms for a number of individuals including Georges Vanier, Viscount Monk and Charles Vincent Massey.
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Alan Beddoe designed the arms for a number of institutions, including the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Cambrian College and the Royal Society of Canada and his fonds includes black-and-white photographs of the letters patent.
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Alan Beddoe designed the Pearson Pennant design with three red maple leaves on a white background with blue bars on either side representing "From sea to sea", and produced numerous other designs for consideration, including a single red maple leaf.
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Alan Beddoe created individual photographic portraits of Major Forbes Thrasher and John Wilfred Kennedy.
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Alan Beddoe's legacy is continued by his son, Charles Beddoe, who followed his footsteps in many ways.