PORT HAWKESBURY, NS
Design C3
Tamarack ship wake
Similar to the previous two C series designs, but this one shows land at the top, or north by common orientation. Technically, for navigation purposes, Port Hawkesbury juts out of a northwest to southeast running coastline just inside the southern opening of the Strait of Canso, so this is not inaccurate in some ways. Just maybe not the way people think of Port Hawkesbury as being on the east side of the Straight of Canso. What this design offers that’s different from the previous two designs, and transitions my designs into the D series, is the rendering of the wake created by the ship. It resembles what many would think of as an evergreen tree, maybe even a Christmas tree with the ship being like some sort of ornament on top. However, it represents a tamarack tree, from something a Reddit contributor pointed out about symbols for Port Hawkesbury when I consulted there. There is a Tamarac school (spelled that way), and some small neighbourhood with the same name. Tamarack, the tree, is a deciduous needle tree, not an evergreen, common to swamp land and the area.
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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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Hawkesbury
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