Purpose
The present-day use of royal symbols has developed from the first royal emblems and images of French, English, Scottish, and, later, British monarchs that were brought by colonists to New France and British North America to represent the authority of the sovereign back in Europe; the first verifiable use of a royal symbol in Canada was when Jacques Cartier in 1534 raised on the Gaspé Peninsula the Royal Arms of France. Since then, some icons were created for use uniquely in the Canadas—mostly coats of arms—but, only after the First World War did increases in Canadian nationalism lead to changes in the appearance and meaning of royal symbols amongst Canadians. Since Canada gained full legislative independence from the United Kingdom in 1931, images of the reigning monarch have been employed to signify either Canada's membership in the Commonwealth of Nations, the Crown's authority, loyalty to Canada, or Canada's full statehood.
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