PORT HAWKESBURY, NS
Design B2
Hawk in nautical P

If the nested nautical flag concept of Design B1 was a little too loopy for you, how’s about just the nautical design for P for Port that is the dark border around a light interior, with something that represents the port name in the interior? In this case, it’s a hawk for Hawkesbury, as they have sometimes used in the past, though they’ve generally used a perched hawk. That’s fine for the way they had used it, which was illustration style, but that would be way too much detail for a flag. And it would not look like much of anything as a silhouette or some simplified drawing, even. As such, I have not only chosen a silhouette, but one with wings spread to better fill the elongated 2:1 flag ratio interior space common to Canadian flags. As for the style, I went with a heraldic one here that I think most people would find pretty cool, and might even feel familiar with in being similar to one on many Pontiac Trans-Am car in the past. Finally, I just knocked out the silhouette on blue because that light green and blue colour that are of the Town colour scheme just don’t contrast each other very well to share much of a border.

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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.

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