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Description Hudson's Bay Company coat of arms, photographed on the wall of the HBC (the Bay) building in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Heraldic achievement of Hudson's Bay Company:
Argent, a cross gules between four beavers passant proper. Crest: On a chapeau gules turned up ermine a squirrel sejant proper. Supporters: Two bucks proper. Latin Motto: pro pelle cutem ("skin for leather")[1] apparently a play on Job, 2:4: Pellem pro pelle[2] "skin for skin".[3][4][5]
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  1. ↑ Cassell's Latin Dictionary. The two different Latin words for skin or leather must be translated accordingly in English by the use of two different words of roughly the same meaning, denoting an exchange
  2. ↑ Nova Vulgata Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1986 (Latin Vulgate Bible)
  3. ↑ As translated in King James Bible
  4. ↑ What does your motto "Pro Pelle Cutem" mean?
  5. ↑ Pro Pelle Cutem, The Hudson’s Bay Company Motto

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