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Coat of Arms

An engraving depicting the coat of arms chosen by Curé Labelle. It features an escutcheon (shield) with a pointed base, with a cross on one side and a sheaf of wheat on the other. Above is a hat, with a braided cord descending on either side of the shield. The curé’s motto is inscribed in a banderole beneath the escutcheon.

Date: 1889
Source: Private collection Dominique Beauregard

The Abbé Elie Auclair explains that the coat of arms and motto chosen by Curé Labelle “pay tribute to the pioneers, settlers and habitants whom he loved above all. In these prelate’s coat of arms—a simple sheaf of wheat—he placed this humble motto, which recalled his love of the soil and his life’s: ‘My father, the farmer’—Pater meus agricola.” The coat of arms was created in 1889 when Antoine Labelle received the title apostolic protonotary.