Proposed Flag for Oxford, NS – Design 3B

OXFORD, NS (Canada)
Design 3B
Fractal blueberry on red field

For a different way of acknowledging Canada on the flag, for context via the town’s moniker of being the “wild blueberry capital of Canada”, I just left a red field under a fimbriated, cropped, fractal blueberry seen in Design 3A. It’s definitely a more imposing design than 3A, with the Canadian nod being more subtle with the red that could mean a lot of other things… but maybe not specific enough as a result.

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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