WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design 5A
Cenotaph with cross tools
The town has a notable cenotaph for the war dead that I found challenging to capture because the silhouette is a bit vague and formless. As a result, I rendered the cross that is part of the cenotaph in black (town colour, coal, that can also stand for death) to give the interior of the silhouette a little bit more form. The cenotaph gets the hoist side for significance, but only looks “right” in a third of the flag, not half. For the remaining area, I put two mining tools, a pickaxe and shovel, not in the same scale, but in a fashion like that cross for a visual theme.
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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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