PORT HAWKESBURY, NS
Design D1
Ship wake tamarack in Canadian pale

This design takes the tamarack within the ship wake rendering from Design C3 and puts it in a Canadian pale rather than try to integrate it into a geographical design. The Canadian pale is a popular flag layout for Canadian municipalities, even though I’m not all that crazy about it, so I try to present a set of ideas with it within every municipal flag ideas set because of how much Nova Scotia loves tradition. In this design, with the Town colours being dark blue, light green, light blue, and white, a geographical design actually results with the ship going through the dark blue Strait of Canso, with green land on either side, leaving a lighter blue wake behind it from white foam in them. While geographical in concept, it is neither ideal, nor intended to be, for representation of Port Hawkesbury. That would require something to mark its location in the fly pale bar, just below centre vertically. A hawk or even hawk head would be too small for easy recognition at small sizes. A star would be too American, and a maple leaf would also be too fine. It would also ruin the symmetry, and insult the Town of Mulgrave across the Strait by leaving them out… as much as Port Hawkesbury might be argued to have wiped Mulgrave off the map economically with the Canso Causeway having been built to cross the Strait of Canso to connect with Port Hawkesbury and by passing Mulgrave for other places on the west side of the Strait.

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REFERENCE
Please check other posts about Port Hawkesbury proposed flag designs to get the full reference. The IG caption limit was too short to include the full discussion above and the full reference written out like in other Port Hawkesbury proposed flag posts.

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