MULGRAVE, NS (Canada)
Design A2
Scotia ferry geographic with Mulgrave star

This is a geographic style flag where the Town logo’s navy ferry and water are in the white straight of Canso area, while the gold at the hoist side represents the land on which the town sits. On the golden land is a symbol I created that I call the Mulgrave star. It has the silhouette of a Mi’kmaq star (not a sacred symbol), but is created from 4Ms for its edge (for Mulgrave), and a “plus” sign at its centre for prosperity (more, additional) to future hopes shared between the historic and modern settlers. The width ratio between the sea and land is that of the Golden Ratio at approximately 1.618, for not only aesthetic beauty, but also the gold Town colour, and another symbolic of the prosperity theme.

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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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