Town of Truro, Nova Scotia

TOWN OF TRURO, NOVA SCOT I A French Acadians in 1755. By 1762, the British had settled in and re-named the settlement Truro, after the city of the same name in Cornwall. So, from a fishing community to a farming community, the next major change occurred when the Nova Scotia Railway between Halifax and Pictou was built in 1858. Truro became a railway “hub” and this position was only solidified when the Intercolonial Railway to Central Canada was built in 1872. It was also around that time that the Truro Woolen Mills, which later became Stanfield’s Ltd, and other industries were set up to take advantage of the convenient transportation Truro provided. “We are the largest town in Nova Scotia,” explains Mayor Bill Mills, “and we’re in the centre of the province. We have neighbours right across the bridge of the Salmon River called Bible Hill and combined with us and the smaller settlements, the population for Colchester