PORT HAWKESBURY, NS
Design C2
Port aerial

This is basically Design C1, with all the same elements, in a more accurate geographical representation, to the point of basically being an aerial rendering. It shows a ship coming into port from the hoist to fly, with Port Hawkesbury being on the east side of the Strait of Canso. The strait is rather narrow and long vertically (north to south), but zoomed in enough to see the ship at the size it is, this could serve as an accurate aerial rendering. A triangle denotes the ship’s wake from the hoist. As for the hawk head representing Port Hawkesbury, it is in the wake for consideration of good placement in flag design. It would rarely be seen if on the land bar in green on the fly. Also, the head looks to the fly instead of the hoist against convention because it doesn’t look correct intuitively to have the ship going to the fly while the head looks to the hoist, as if either ignoring the ship or looking the other way of Port Hawkesbury. Convention is great, but not when it doesn’t make sense, with the reasoning for looking to the hoist being so it didn’t look like it was running away (for animals that were not birds) or flying away. Finally, the burgee nautical reference from Design C1 is lost in this design, in exchange for a much nicer rendering of the boat’s wake and a familiar triangle design from the hoist.

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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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