WESTVILLE, NS

Finalist 1
Westbound Freed Canary

DESCRIPTION
“A yellow canary faces the hoist (west) against a sky blue background in the third closest to the hoist. Three identical vertical white stripes occupy the middle third, separated by a sky blue stripe of the same width to the hoist, and an equal size black stripe to the fly. The fly third is black.”

REFERENCES
This is a design of transition, going from fly to hoist to fly, or westward, showing Westville’s transition from past mining town to modern bedroom community. The black on the fly represents the coal once mined and the tragedies associated with it. The three stripes represent the three mining shafts once in the town, with transitionary dividers from black to blue of the main colours from fly to hoist. The canary in the sky represents a past association with mining and tragedy not to be forgotten, but now free of it to fly in the sky where it belongs, choosing to head westward as the town name implies.

This is a personal project I have been doing for a year, not an effort by the municipality or its citizens.