KENTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design B1
Battlement and apple blossom

Possibly the most and only visually interesting building left in Kentville is its iconic Main Street Station (formerly Cornwallis hotel), with castle battlement or crenellation on its roof (see pic 2). In this design, I used that castle battlement profile in place of a stripe, and placed a single apple blossom over it like a symbol in the sky. It also allowed me to use more of the Town green in the design, with a nice white fimbriation for contrast. Subtly, the battlement has 13 horizontal sections across, with 6 being indented lower, with both being ominous numbers sometimes associated with the devil as a subtle nod to that Devil’s Half Acre past nickname Kentville had.

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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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