-20- ]>uke of Kent who was Prince Edward and father of Queen Victoria. He was interested, too, in the Island's coat of armsj 3 saplings nestling in the shelter of a great and aged oak. This coat of arms was designed in Yf6 S 9 when St „ John was made a separate colony, and legend says it was the idea of King George the Third, whose thought it was that the large oak should represent Great Britain and the >3 saplings to be the 3 counties of Prince Edward Island . The Ottawa Journal