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Municipal Flag Design
Jan. 16th, 2018 03:14 pmI'm to design a flag for a Canadian municipality. Springhill, NS, comes to mind. It's my mother's hometown, and I spent a fair amount of time there in my childhood. It's an inland town known for its once thriving coal-mining industry, and for three coal mining disasters. Nowadays, it hosts a penitentiary.
.... aaaaand I just found out it stopped being a municipality three years ago and no longer qualifies for my project. Back to the drawing board....
Next up is Nackawic, NB, which is a municipality (I checked). I went to high school there. The town came to be when surrounding areas were flooded because of construction of the Mactaquac Dam. People resettled at what became Nackawic (previously named Otis). Sadly, its crowning attraction is that it is home to the world's biggest axe. The axe is in recognition of the forestry industry. Alas, but the pulp and paper mill went bankrupt and hundreds of residents lost their job, so the big axe took on a whole new meaning, going from noun to verb.
Important elements for Nackawic are the river and the forest, so the colours green and blue immediately come to mind, along with an axe motif.
I looked up Dildo, NL (because hahahah, and also because I used to swim there when I was little), but it is not a municipality.
Then I found Leading Tickles in a list of Newfoundland municipalities. I love the name of the place, although I don't think I ever went there despite living in the general vicinity and probably having lots of distant relatives there. The Facebook page for the community has a delightful bit of Newfinese in the about page: "This page be about events that's taken place and many photos of Leading Tickles." Leading Tickles is a rocky forested harbour village on the northern coast of Newfoundland. It has a park and hiking trails, and its claim to fame is the plethora of springtime icebergs. The federal government is represented in the town with the Harbour Authority of Leading Tickles.
Blue and white are representative of the icebergs and harbour.
I sent a message to the folks at the FB page requesting more information. Here's hoping they get back to me!
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Leading Tickles is on Notre Dame Bay, which was once the home of the Beothuk people. Red ochre was used by the Beothuk in their spring celebrations. Including an ochre red would memorialize these people wiped out through genocide.
I think a flag representing Leading Tickles would best be represented by blue, white, and red. Red, white, and blue are also the colours of the Union Jack. Newfoundland was a British colony until 1949, so these colours hearken back to this part of its history. Since the symbolism of the Beothuk red and the iceberg blue and white are both representative of springtime, they also become colours of springtime rebirth and regeneration.
Here's some additional information on flag placement policies in Canada: Flying Rules
.... aaaaand I just found out it stopped being a municipality three years ago and no longer qualifies for my project. Back to the drawing board....
Next up is Nackawic, NB, which is a municipality (I checked). I went to high school there. The town came to be when surrounding areas were flooded because of construction of the Mactaquac Dam. People resettled at what became Nackawic (previously named Otis). Sadly, its crowning attraction is that it is home to the world's biggest axe. The axe is in recognition of the forestry industry. Alas, but the pulp and paper mill went bankrupt and hundreds of residents lost their job, so the big axe took on a whole new meaning, going from noun to verb.
Important elements for Nackawic are the river and the forest, so the colours green and blue immediately come to mind, along with an axe motif.
I looked up Dildo, NL (because hahahah, and also because I used to swim there when I was little), but it is not a municipality.
Then I found Leading Tickles in a list of Newfoundland municipalities. I love the name of the place, although I don't think I ever went there despite living in the general vicinity and probably having lots of distant relatives there. The Facebook page for the community has a delightful bit of Newfinese in the about page: "This page be about events that's taken place and many photos of Leading Tickles." Leading Tickles is a rocky forested harbour village on the northern coast of Newfoundland. It has a park and hiking trails, and its claim to fame is the plethora of springtime icebergs. The federal government is represented in the town with the Harbour Authority of Leading Tickles.
Blue and white are representative of the icebergs and harbour.
I sent a message to the folks at the FB page requesting more information. Here's hoping they get back to me!
Leading Tickles is on Notre Dame Bay, which was once the home of the Beothuk people. Red ochre was used by the Beothuk in their spring celebrations. Including an ochre red would memorialize these people wiped out through genocide.
I think a flag representing Leading Tickles would best be represented by blue, white, and red. Red, white, and blue are also the colours of the Union Jack. Newfoundland was a British colony until 1949, so these colours hearken back to this part of its history. Since the symbolism of the Beothuk red and the iceberg blue and white are both representative of springtime, they also become colours of springtime rebirth and regeneration.
Here's some additional information on flag placement policies in Canada: Flying Rules
