Arms of L'Association des Morais d'Acadie Inc.

Blazon

Argent on a fess wavy Azure between in chief an escallop flanked by two lingonberry clusters and in base an oak tree eradicated Gules, a mullet Or;

Symbolism

The blue, white and red, as well as the star, pay tribute to Acadia. The wavy line represents the ocean that was crossed to establish a new family in the New World, at Rivière-Ouelle around 1705. The lingonberries, known as “morets” in Normandy, refer to the family name, Morais, while the shell, the emblem of St. James (Jacques in French), alludes to both the scallop dish known as coquilles Saint-Jacques and the forename of the first ancestor, Jacques Morais, who settled in Caraquet, New Brunswick, and owned a parcel of land at the time of the Caraquet great land grant on May 29, 1784. The oak symbolizes the solidity of one’s roots and refers to the 2,000 oak trees given to the members of the Morais family who gathered in 2000 in Tracadie-Sheila. Those trees have since been planted around the world.