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The lower part of the shield represents Yukon's mountains, with the gold disks (called " bezants," a medieval gold coin) representing the territory's mineral riches and its birth in the Klondike Gold Rush. The two white wavy lines represents the territory's rivers.

In chief, the red cross represents England; the disk surmounting it is in a pattern called "vair," a type of heraldic fur (literally squirrel fur), and representing the territory's wealth of fur-bearing animals.

The crest is a husky dog standing on a mound of snow.

1 Blazon

Shield: Azure, on a pallet wavy Argent, a like pallet of the field, issuant from base two piles reversed Gules, fimbriated also Argent, each charged with two bezants in pale, on a chief Argent a cross Gules, surmounted of a roundel vair.

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