See this site for an overview of the meaning of crest symbols: http://www.fleurdelis.com/meanings.htm. Some hatpins cross into different categories. This site has hundreds of crests: ://www.militarybadges.info/pages/uk/crest-brit.htm
Province of Alberta, Canada. Enamel crest, white, a circular ring that is lopsided, narrow at bottom, with the crest placed inside. Top of ring is a green viney motif. The crest is a red cross with the arm the longest, and the up-down part really short. Then below is a blue sky area, then mountains, then a sea perhaps.
Enamel technique: See ://www.hardrockcafepins.com/enamel.htm
At the site:
wavy line means sea or water, check.
maybe the cross is only a "nebuly line" meaning clouds
Ours here looks like the one at this Google search - images search - see the Alberta (Canada) coat of arms, at ://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.civicheraldry.com/120/g_alberta.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.civicheraldry.com/page/1840&h=212&w=200&sz=23&hl=en&start=188&um=1&tbnid=yFS-iRyuftwVrM:&tbnh=106&tbnw=100&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcrest%2Bheraldry%2Bmountains%26start%3D180%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DLuF%26sa%3DN
That is hugely long, so try your own search in images for crest heraldry mountains. It is at the 10th page of that search. Hurrah. Virtue rewarded. Easier to find at ://www.civicheraldry.com/page/1840.
This makes sense because we do have a button on a long hatpin for the Alberta Light Horse Cavalry, and that would be World War I. Will find it. Howard Scharfe (this collection) is/was Canadian, Ottawa, Ontario, naturalized here in the 1930's. Relatives all over.
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