KENTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design A2
Triple apple blossom in Town colours

As OK as I was with Design A1 having one large apple blossom on blue in the Town colours, I would prefer more visual details. I moved just a tad in that direction with this design of three smaller apple blossoms just spread horizontally on the flag. They’re still large enough to know what they are from afar, but adds visual interest. As for why three? They’re for each of the peoples who have lived there: the original Mi’kmaq, the Acadians, and the current mostly of British ancestry. However, given those peoples each had their own symbols, some other symbolism of three related to the Town should be found. That I’m sure of, even though one shouldn’t design a flag backwards in this way to find symbolism to fit a design.

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REFERENCE
Kentville is the most populous town in the Annapolis Valley with a population of about 6600 in 2021. It is mostly known in the present for its annual Apple Blossom Festival in May, and was once known in the early 1800s as The Devil’s Half Acre for its rowdy drinking and horse racing that makes for some delightfully visual flag design ideas! They still use the name at times so it’s not taboo for flag design! Only the iconic Main Street Station with its castle like roof line remains of Kentville’s architectural history, with no designated historic properties in town. Otherwise, the town owes to its existence in originally crossing the Cornwallis River to connect the rest of the Valley with the rest of the Nova Scotia mainland. The Acadians were the first European settlers there before being expelled and replaced by the British.

https://kentville.ca/

https://www.appleblossom.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentville

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