MULGRAVE, NS (Canada)
Design B1
Geographic in Town colours

In this simple geographic flag (term by Ted Kaye, one of the most respected vexillologists in the world), the blue section at right represents the Strait of Canso that is the eastern border of the Town of Mulgrave. The blue. Bar is 33% the thickness of the flag width. A gold Mulgrave star, for prosperity and Mi’kmaq tribute via its star silhouette, sits on the white land area at left, with the gold being dark enough that it doesn’t fully disobey the rule of tincture where yellow/gold and white should not share common borders. As for the question of a map not looking the same from the reverse side, like text doesn’t, I was told by Ted Kaye that it’s OK because it’s not the same where it has to be read. It still works without the geography like with a blue bar for the water and white for the land, without geographic relativity to each other. That’s a great point to note!

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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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