OXFORD, NS (Canada)
Design 3C
Fractal blueberry and fractured maple leaf

This design really goes modern with the fractal blueberry seen in Designs 3A and 3B, but also a partial, reversed Canadian flag maple leaf for a middle vertical section in white against a red field seen on the hoist side. The cropping of that maple leaf may seem odd, perhaps even jarring, but it is as such for good reasons. First, any smaller and there would have to be a red blotch next to the blueberry due to the triple pointed Canadian flag maple leaf design. I might try to ignore than and leave it in white in shrinking the white maple leaf here for the revised version of this design, to get the full maple leaf vertically. However, in recent history, there was an oil company called Petro-Canada that had the same design, and many people would still recall that to think Petro-Canada has something to do with this flag.

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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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