WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design 8B
Free canary vertical bicolour
From Design 8A, I created and added the free flying canary symbol that I thought fit the town quite well. The canary in the coal mine is an ominous symbol: in a cage, in the dark, possibly passed out. However, the canary flying free in the sky, west and away from that dark past, nicely captures the spirit of Westville today that cherishes that past. We’ll see if the Town will care for the idea, but I think they’ll be challenged to come up with a symbol with a better narrative.
The pickaxes in the second picture alternate version balances the flag visually, but maybe isn’t necessary, can be a distraction, and some just don’t like the symbol.
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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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