PORT HAWKESBURY, NS
Design A1
H in Town Colours

With not much to go on for symbols, I started with a simple, but symmetric, H design (for Hawkesbury) that would look the same from either front or back. While lettering is not recommended as a good flag design principle, my research with flag survey ratings has shown that symmetric, large, single letters designs were rated significantly higher statistically than flags with lettering forming words or phrases., and fared equally well to other simple flag designs. As such, while this design is boring, and not really meaningful with only the Town colours on it besides the H, it works. Note the vertical columns for the H are 1/4 of the flag width, as would be in a Canadian pale background so common to flags of Canadian municipalities., as a subtle nod to the Town being a Canadian town.

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REFERENCE
Port Hawkesbury is a municipality of about 3200 people in 8.10 sq km (3.13 sq mi) in the south of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. It is a part of Inverness County, geographically, but is independent of it politically. It was founded as Ship Harbour in 1789, but renamed in honour of Admiral Sir Edward Hawke. It has a history of ship building for the timber export trade, schooners, and fishing boats. Today, it is largely a service centre for western Cape Breton, with many residents working in large industries in adjacent communities. Otherwise, there isn’t a lot of symbolism associated with Port Hawkesbury, historically or visually, simple or iconic enough for a flag, except for maybe the tamarack tree from an areas and some buildings so named currently.

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