WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Designs 9G, 9H, 9I
Flared mineshaft memorial with and without symbols
From the mineshaft memorials in the 9 Series of designs, I flared them open like some designs in the 8 Series of designs, where the flare is a 70 degree from the horizontal for the 70 miners killed in accidents over the years. The first design is without additional symbols like the free canary and pickaxes, while the second and third designs have one and two additional symbols. The nature of the flare leaves very little room in the important upper hoist section so while symbols could be fitted into there, I don’t think it works well as shown.
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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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