these Presents shall come or whom the same may in any way concern, GREETING:

By Robert Douglas Watt, Chief Herald of Canada;

WHEREAS Vincent Levasseur, Founder and First President of the Association des Levasseur d’Amérique inc., has petitioned the Chief Herald of Canada that the ASSOCIATION DES LEVASSEUR D’AMÉRIQUE be granted armorial bearings by lawful authority, which Association was incorporated on the 21st day of March 1989 by the Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs pursuant to the Canada Corporations Act, its main objectives being to bring together the Levasseur families of America, to preserve their collective heritage, to promote research and the diffusion of historical and genealogical knowledge concerning the Levasseurs of America and to honour the memory of the ancestors Jean, Pierre and Laurent Levasseur and the achievements of their descendants with monuments, plaques and other marks of recognition;

AND WHEREAS a Warrant dated the 24th day of November 1995 has been issued by Lieutenant-General James Cyrille Gervais, Commander of the Order of Military Merit, Deputy Herald Chancellor of the Canadian Heraldic Authority, authorizing the Chief Herald of Canada to grant to the ASSOCIATION DES LEVASSEUR D’AMÉRIQUE such armorial bearings as are deemed fitting and appropriate;

NOW KNOW YOU that pursuant to the authority vested in His Excellency the Right Honourable Roméo Adrien Leblanc, a Member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada, Chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of the Order of Military Merit, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, to exercise the armorial prerogative of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Canada, by Letters Patent dated the 4th day of June 1988 and the terms of my Commission of Office, I, the Chief Herald of Canada do by these Presents grant and assign to the ASSOCIATION DES LEVASSEUR D’AMÉRIQUE the following Arms: Azure a chevron between an oak tree an base and a chief Argent charged with a maple leaf Gules between dexter a fleur-de-lis and sinister a mullet Azure; And for a Motto: DU MIEUX QUE JE PUIS;

As the same are more plainly here depicted and entered in Volume III, page 201 of the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada to be borne and used for ever hereafter by the ASSOCIATION DES LEVASSEUR D’AMÉRIQUE on seals, banners, and otherwise according to the Law of Arms of Canada;

GIVEN under my hand and the seal of the Canadian Heraldic Authority at Rideau Hall in the City of Ottawa this fifteenth day of October in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven, in the third year of His Excellency’s service in office and in the forty-sixth year of Her Majesty’s reign.