Business View Civil and Municipal | March 2021

173 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL MARCH 2021 AT A GLANCE TRURO, NOVA SCOTIA WHAT: A progressive ‘hub’ town; population 13,000 WHERE: Colchester County, Central Nova Scotia WEBSITE: www.truro.ca T he towns and cities of the Atlantic provinces are the oldest in the country. They have seen hundreds of years of progress and change, each one inventing and re-inventing themselves many times over the years. The endearing Town of Truro, Nova Scotia is no exception. ROLLING WITH THE CHANGES TOWN OF TR Nova Scotia Located on the south side of the Salmon River in the Cobequid Bay region of the Bay of Fundy, today’s Truro was originally a Mi’kmaq settlement called “Wagobagitik.” Acadian settlers came to the area in the early 1700s but many were forced to leave during the expulsion of the