KENTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design D3
Three Peoples’ bicolour
Like the other designs that ended in the number 3 in their serial number, this one also has 3 symbols for the 3 peoples who have lived on the land that is currently Kentville: the Mi’kmaq First Nation, the Acadians, and the mostly British. These symbols are on the background of the letter of the series, so that is a vertical bicolour here. The only difference between the symbols in this design and other designs ending in 3 is the Mi’kmaq single colour representation being white instead of yellow, which it can be. That is because yellow on green does not show up well for contrast. The other designs with serial sequence ending in 3 all had blue backgrounds where the Mi’kmaq star and Acadian gold star had appear so this was never an issue in those designs.
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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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentville
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