OXFORD, NS (Canada)
Design 1A
Canadian pale blueberry
How do you say the “wild blueberry capital of Canada” on a flag? A Canadian pale field, with a single large, stylized blueberry is a good place to start. The stylized blueberry is a more stylized rendering of the art in the town, from the town sign to a large chair for photo-ops. It’s the part where a branch would have been attached to the blueberry that I had stylized into a slightly plump star. The blueberry blues (here and on all designs to be shown) are from the Town colour blue, while the red is Canada’s flag red.
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REFERENCE
Oxford, Nova Scotia, is a town 10.68 sq km (4.12 sq mi) in size, with about 1,200 people. Despite this small size and population, it is the world’s largest processor and distributor of individually quick frozen (IQF) wild blueberries! This is because it is centred in a large blueberry growing region, with Oxford Frozen Foods Ltd., a wild blueberry processor owned by local businessman John Bragg, processing up to three million pounds of berries a day during peak season! John owns the plant and over 12,000 acres of blueberry land in the area, with another 15,700 acres in the Acadian region of northern New Brunswick added in 2014. The town was founded in 1792, with the “Oxford” name derived from the shallow river that was used to enter the town, rather than having anything to do with Oxford in England. Early settlers used oxen to cross, or “ford”, the river, and thus derived the town’s Oxford name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford,_Nova_Scotia
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