MULGRAVE, NS (Canada)
Design E1
Stylized Scotia ferry

The Scotia ferry is so important to Mulgrave that its main tourist attraction is a museum to it that is a like a land building version of it from the outside. For purposes of flag design, the ferry has a unique silhouette that doesn’t look like much of anything most people outside the area would know, so it’s hard to use it effectively. Meanwhile, enough details to make the ferry recognizable for what it was may be too much. Given how important this ferry is to this Town, though, I had to give it a try so they’d at least know what it might look like. This is my rendition, added to a few long decorative stripes to frame it rather than just leave it floating on a white background.

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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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