WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design 4B
Pickaxes in sloped in Canadian pale
Basically Design 4A with the pickaxes larger and not contained within a circle, to be more like a sports banner. While the intention was good, it does look a bit negative like an X in a box, not as a vote but as a rejection. Still, that is better than what some told me on other platforms about the double pickaxes symbolism being Communist or Fascist. Interesting how they got that idea from the flag of the former Soviet Union with the hammer and sickle in yellow and tiny in the canton area that is red like the rest of the flag! That was the only Communist flag they could think of and it prompted the association!
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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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