Proposed Flag for Westville, NS – Design 4A

WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design 4A
Pickaxes in circle in sloped Canadian pale

In yet a different way to make a Canadian pale like flag distinctive, I sloped the insides of the pale bars to taper towards the bottom, leaving the centre space in the shape of a W that would stand for Westville. It also looks a bit like a basketball in a net for a sporty look to allude to that proud past and recreational and proud present aspect of the town.

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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

https://westville.ca/

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