PORT HAWKESBURY, NS
Design B1
Double embedded nautical

Continuing with the nautical flag theme given Port Hawkesbury is a port where such flags could be found, this design embeds the nautical flag for H within the nautical flag for P, in Town colours rather than actual colours. This is to avoid potential confusion with other nautical flags should this flag and other nautical flags be flown in proximity of each other. This is also the Town flag so the Town colours being used is appropriate. In form, the nautical flag for P is a dark ring around a light centre, while the nautical flag for H is a vertical bicolour with the darker side on the right. With the Town colours being a dark blue, and light blue and really light green, the nautical flag for P could be rendered as the dark blue border with the two other colours being light in nature to fill the centre. Within that centre, the light blue is noticeably darker than the very light green, if converted to greyscale, to divide the interior like the nautical flag for H with the darker half to the fly in the vertical bicolour.

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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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