Background on North American/Canadian armorials, Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain in North America, pp.192-197, offers the following comments;“Canada, still part of the British Empire and not independent until 1867, had a dramatically different history of importing Chinese porcelains than did the United States.” Canada imported more English-produced Staffordshire porcelain (e.g., Minton, Copeland) than Chinese porcelain as compared to the United States. “Still, there is written evidence and some remaining objects to show the sort of Chinese export being bought in Canada…. In western Canada, certain posts of the North West Company have yielded shards of common [Chinese] export ware. On the coast, the Hudson Bay Company, incorporating the North West Company in 1821, established Fort Vancouver three years later as the headquarters and depot of its ‘Western Department,’ that is Columbia and New Caledonia.” Finally, what makes this armorial so very interesting is that it is one of very few that depict a Native American of the eighteenth century.