WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design 9B and 9C
Mine memorial with symbols
From Design 9A, my invented free canary symbol first shown in Design 8B is added in the canton to symbolize the Westville of today, flying free in the blue sky. A possible counterbalance symbol might be added in the form of a lantern in the lower hoist quadrant of black coal underground where the lantern would have been used. However, this could be considered redundant symbolism and would only exist for the sake of a rough rotational symmetry to the design with the free canary.
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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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