PORT HAWKESBURY, NS
Design D2
Tamarack in Canadian pale

While the triangular, pine resembling tamarack was rendered to be embeddable into a ship’s wake in the previous two designs, the way Christmas trees are often drawn, if you looked at the tamarack closely, as well as Christmas trees in sale lots, they are actually like an upside down kite in shape! In this design, I rendered the tamarack in the same style as in the previous two designs, just more accurately with the upside down kite shape and branches splaying out in the proper direction. I gave it the proper green colour, and used the other Town colours to fill out the Canadian pale layout. Obviously, there is no hawk in this design to represent Port Hawkesbury, but the hawk is not an official symbol of the town. It was just something occasionally used, and only formally once to commemorate their centenary. Here, the tamarack is the dominant symbol for the town seeing as it has a school and a neighbourhood named after the tree, albeit spelled Tamarac.

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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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