MAHONE BAY, NS
6C and 6E new Round 2 design without religious references

In response to a vocal minority that called for designs without religious reference, I came up with the 6 series of designs that used a radiant blue for the town’s vibrancy and seaside location, the schooner for its boat building heritage, and the Mi’kmaq star (sun) for First Nations representation. These two final designs use a heraldic wavy for the top, with old and new boats heading in separate directions like it’s boat building industry over time, around a Mi’kmaq star at centre that will always be there, so to speak. The bottom designs shows symbols of various events and features well known to Mahone Bay, including its scarecrow festival, Canada Day festival, and lively music scene at its bandstand. The Mi’kmaq star is in red, symbolizing a star that is actually a sun symbolizing unity. Its full colours are black (west), white (north), yellow (east), and red (south), but I had seen it depicted in one colour like here, or one colour with black outline.

REFERENCE
Mahone Bay is a small town of about 1000 residents on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. It is a picturesque tourism destination, especially the iconic three churches along the waterfront of the bay itself, though there are five churches in the town! It has a historic boat/ship building heritage, with more transport and industrial ships in the past, and more pleasure crafts in the present, from all materials but especially wood historically. It is also a current haven for entrepreneurs and business startups growing its population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahone_Bay,_Nova_Scotia

https://www.townofmahonebay.ca/

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