WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design 6A
Pickaxe and lantern
As I get more designs done, I move farther away from branding and/or just most obvious symbols. Here, I used a larger and more detailed pickaxe than previously rendered, and I add not only a lantern, but the colour yellow with it that is not in the town colour scheme. Their minor league hockey team has had (and may still have) yellow highlights on their uniforms, using the St. Louis Blues NHL team jersey as a base design. The pickaxe is a symbol of Westville’s mining past that is all past, while the lantern is also a symbol of hope, with context for mining in Westville’s past. As a bedroom community today, the lantern is the perfectly quiet symbol of peace and hope that exists in Westville today.
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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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