Provincial Symbols
| Provincial symbols | |
| Official flower | Purple Pitcher Plant |
| Official tree | Black Spruce |
| Official bird | Atlantic Puffin |
| Official horse | Newfoundland pony |
| Official animal | Caribou |
| Official game bird | Ptarmigan |
| Official mineral | Labradorite |
| Official dogs | Newfoundland Dog and Labrador Retriever |
| Provincial anthem | Ode to Newfoundland |
| Provincial holiday | June 24, Discovery Day |
| Patron saint | John the Baptist |
| Official tartan | |
| Great seal | |
| Coat of arms | |
| Escutcheon | |
| Provincial wordmark | |
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Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or symbols:
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.”
—Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac (1619–1655)