MULGRAVE, NS (Canada)
Design A1
Scotia ferry in oval

The Mulgrave logo of its historic Scotia ferry, rendered via some blue paintbrush stokes, starts my set for proposed flags of Mulgrave as current branding will always have the highest probability of adoption. The logo is a tad more detailed than ideal for a flag design, but acceptable, so I used it, unlike many other town logos I have seen. For the nostalgia of the history, and painting style rendering of that ferry, not to mention a small town feel, the ferry logo is framed in an oval, with the area around it being the Mulgrave gold Town colour. The navy, white, and gold colour combination is very helpful to enhance the design’s intent and feel, being calm, classic, as well as distinctive as a rarely seen colour combination.

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REFERENCE
Mulgrave is Nova Scotia’s third least populated municipality at just 627 people in the 2021 census, in an area of 17.83 sq km or 6.88 sq miles. It is located on the west side shore of the Strait of Canso that separates the NS mainland from Cape Breton Island. The Canso Causeway bridged the Strait in 1955, leading to the decline of the town that was once port to the specially design Scotia ferry that carried train cars, and a railway hub that brought those train cars to and from Mulgrave. That ferry is the main visual in the Mulgrave logo (pic 2). First settled by British Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution in the late 1700s (est. 1800), on the Mi’kmaq First Nations “lobster grounds” of Wolumkwagagunutk, Mulgrave has seen lots of economic ups and downs, the last of which was a downturn in 1955. However, residents remain optimistic about their future and this optimism continues to grow today (Town website).

https://www.townofmulgrave.ca/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulgrave,_Nova_Scotia

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