The Coat of Arms of the Canada Company. Founded in 1825 by Scottish novelist John Galt, the father of Sir Alexander Galt, one of the Fathers of Confederation, its aim was to help settle and develop Upper Canada/Ontario. Its arms, containing the symbols of Anglo-Canadians such as the thistle, rose and shamrock, were sometimes mistakenly depicted as the Coat of Arms of Canada in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Its motto "Non Mutat Genus Solum" roughly translates to "the country does not change the ancestry" or "a change of soil does not change one's race."