WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design 8A
Three vertical mineshafts
A taste of the new style in which the Round 2 designs will be going. Three mineshafts, for the three mines that used to be in Westville, are rendered as vertical white stripes on a vertical bicolour of the Town’s blue and black colour scheme. The black represents the coal mining past, while the blue represents clear skies like the peaceful bedroom community Westville is today. The black is on the fly side transitioning to the present on the hoist because that is a westerly direction, on paper, for Westville.
I will be getting back to averaging just one design a day again so as to have designs to post long after I hope to be done with this summer project of flag ideas for 11 municipalities in Nova Scotia without one. I just wanted to rush through the previous set because most were bad, but that’s part of exploration. 🙂
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REFERENCE
Westville is an inland bedroom community of about 3,500 people in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, that has a proud and sometimes tragic mining past that ended in the 1990s. There once was three underground mines, and an explosion in 1873 killed 70 miners, for whom there is a memorial. Another prominent memorial in town is the cenotaph. Like many mining towns, Westville once had some prominent amateur sport teams in baseball, cricket, hockey, and football. However, today, there is only a recreational sport scene there. The town’s colours are a deep blue, white, and black, and is on everything from the website to the former high school and current minor hockey league team. Miners and mining are definitely Westville’s identity, with their website pointing out on its home page how this small town with a big heart needs to honour its past so as to have a future. The town has no logo, a very crudely drawn seal of two men working in the mines, and practically no branding aside from the colour scheme mentioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westville,_Nova_Scotia
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