PORT HAWKESBURY, NS
Design D4
Hawk in faux Canadian pale

The hawk head silhouette in Design D3 was unsatisfactory to me for clear recognizability, probably from lack of familiarity with a close up hawk head silhouette rather than anything bad about the actual silhouette. As a result, I went for a full hawk in this design that should be more recognizable as some sort of bird of prey, whether a hawk, eagle, or otherwise. But nobody will be doubting that charge is a bird when this design is flying in the wind, or even at small size on paper. As for the hawk silhouette, the Trans Am like bird I used in Design B2 was too heraldic to align with a modern field like the Canadian pale, so I used a more modern hawk rendering, like that of swooping eagles and birds of prey in some American flag. However, the Canadian pale field should keep it from being mistaken for, or guessed to be, an American city flag… even if that pale is a faux Canadian pale field as explained in Design D3.

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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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