WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design 7A
Opposite unique tools
This final set of designs in Round 1 feature only tools for symbols, grouped and displayed in contrast to each other. To the hoist half, mining tools are shown in white against black. The mining history, with coal and tragedy, are most important to this town. The amateur sports history, meanwhile, is secondary and played in the white light of day. It is on the fly half and features baseball and cricket bats in blue against white like the sport team colours aside from the black. In this first design of the series, the mining tools are shown in cross formation, in part like a memorial, with a pickaxe and shovel. To extend the opposition theme between the two halves of the flag, the bats are shown in X formation as found in some sport logos.
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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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