KENTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design E1
The Devil’s Canadian pale half acre
The Canadian pale field nicely leaves a square half the area of the 2:1 ratio flag in the middle that could serve as a “half acre” for Kentville’s past nickname of The Devil’s Half Acre. This design was then easy to finish off by placing making the centre section green that is associated with land rather than blue associated with sky or water, with a reversed pentagram on that green half acre. That reversed pentagram would be a relatively large size to be prominent visually, without competition of other symbols around it. It’s probably a bit much for many to have on a flag, though Kentville wouldn’t be the first or only other flag to have a reversed pentagram on it. However, that’s why I didn’t have a design with some sort of devil icon on it. We’ll see if they have that much of a sense of humour about the Devil’s Half Acre name in Baptist Kentville to signal it to the world.
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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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