WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Designs 10A and 10B
Miner’s hard hat
From a suggestion by a feedback provider on Facebook to use a miner’s hard hat, I came up with these 2 designs using the town colours & yellow. The black background design has a stronger memorial feel, and association with coal. The direction it runs also means more of the helmet and light are visible if the flag is draped limp. However, I thought some people may like the more “positive” outlook of the rays heading up left to right as we read, with a blue rather than black background. The rays are similar except that in the black version, a base is there to make them into a W, whereas in the blue version, they only allude to a W with their 3 beams pronged. In both cases, I used a tad of an extra colour inside the hard hat, for the sake of Town colours, but the designs would be fine with it being the background colour instead.
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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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