WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Designs 9D, 9E, 9F
W memorial with and without symbols
From the mineshaft memorials in the 9 Series of designs, a horizontal connector is added to make the 3 mineshafts more visually like a W for Westville that they were intended to evoke, but may not have done so effectively without that bottom connector. On the other hand, that connector might make things too obvious and maybe tacky. Alternate versions have symbols, including white double pickaxes for variation from the yellow lantern in Design 9C, in case they looked more appealing and/or symmetrically balanced.
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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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