In January 2001, City Council approved a new Coat of Arms for the new municipality created through the amalgamation of the former City of Hamilton, City of Stoney Creek, Towns of Ancaster, Dundas, Flamborough and the Township of Glanbrook. The Coat of Arms was designed with the assistance of the Heraldry Department of the Governor General's Office in Ottawa.

Symbols comprising the City's Coat of Arms are as follows:
The Cinquefoil is a heraldic flower of five petals that is the badge of the Clan Hamilton. It also represents the name of the city. The Chain has two meanings:

• A circle of chain is the standard heraldic symbol for unity
• The Chain symbolizes steel, a major element in the City's identity

The six larger links in the chain symbolize the six communities joined in unity.The Buck or Staff symbolizes the unspoiled wilderness that currently exists in the Dundas Valley and other parts of the city.The Tiger: Hamilton was famous as "Tiger Town" prior to the naming of the city's present CFL football team, The Hamilton Tiger Cats, and still proudly bears this nickname.The Ground or Compartment, on which the animals stand, represents two defining geographical features of the region:

• The escarpment
• Hamilton Bay

The Coronet above the shield, which contains two wheat sheaves, symbolizes rural and urban characteristics of Hamilton. Coronets surrounding the necks of the Tiger and the Buck represent Loyalists who settled in the communities that make up Hamilton.

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