WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design 8D
Flared mineshafts with 2 symbols
From Design 8C, I added some symbols. One was the lantern to make the mining aspect a little less abstract, but also more hopeful than hand tools like the double pickaxes. It balances the other symbol of the free canary from Design 8B that summarizes what Westville is about from past to present. That canary is probably the only symbol needed, if any, beyond the slightly abstract design in 8C. The flared mineshaft designs meant these symbols had to be a tad small unless they were to be in low visibility and importance, as well as respectability, positions in the lower corners of the flag.
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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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