OXFORD, NS (Canada)
Design 2A
Blueberry and 2 red stripes

There is a flag that sometimes flies on the Citadel Hill fortress where I live that belongs to some historic company, with a red star on white and two horizontal red stripes butted to the top and bottom. The flag was historically flown to denote supplies were coming in from, or being sent to, that company. In the way the blueberries in Oxford are “supplies” that gets exported via a company in Oxford that is its largest employer, I thought a similar design to that company flag would be an interesting variation to tie in blueberries and Canada for the “wild blueberry capital of Canada”, with the red stripes being a not too blatant nod to Canada for symbolism.

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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://oxfordns.ca/

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

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