WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design 3E
Pickaxes in circle in Canadian pale
Back to a traditional Canadian pale design, I put the pickaxes knocked out of a circle here to give the centre more colour since the pickaxes don’t take up a lot of surface area. I put this circle in blue to allow for the black bars that are rare among Canadian pale designs, helping the flag be a bit more distinct. Design 3A had been done with blue bars to show both variations, but I definitely prefer the black bars. It’s a lot of black, but we have a century’s worth of coal mining to this town that they honour at the highest level.
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REFERENCE
Westville is an inland bedroom community of about 3,500 people in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, that has a proud and sometimes tragic mining past that ended in the 1990s. There once was three underground mines, and an explosion in 1873 killed 70 miners, for whom there is a memorial. Another prominent memorial in town is the cenotaph. Like many mining towns, Westville once had some prominent amateur sport teams in baseball, cricket, hockey, and football. However, today, there is only a recreational sport scene there. The town’s colours are a deep blue, white, and black, and is on everything from the website to the former high school and current minor hockey league team. Miners and mining are definitely Westville’s identity, with their website pointing out on its home page how this small town with a big heart needs to honour its past so as to have a future. The town has no logo, a very crudely drawn seal of two men working in the mines, and practically no branding aside from the colour scheme mentioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westville,_Nova_Scotia
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