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Truro (Scottish Gaelic: Trùru) is a town in central Nova Scotia, Canada. Truro is the shire town of Colchester County and is located on the south side of the Salmon River floodplain, close to the river's mouth at the eastern end of Cobequid Bay .
This is a list of the census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census and the 2016 Canadian census. [1] Each entry is identified as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA) as defined by Statistics Canada.
Colchester County is located in north central Nova Scotia. The majority of the county is governed by the Municipality of the County of Colchester, the county also is home to two independent incorporated towns, Stewiacke and Truro , two village commissions in Bible Hill and Tatamagouche , and the Millbrook 27 First Nations reserve.
Salmon River (formerly Meadowvale) is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Colchester County. [1] Salmon River is located adjacent to Truro on the south side of the Salmon River, from which it derives its name. Meadowvale Dairy Limited (1919) had a creamery on the Salmon River Road three miles from Truro.
The Halifax-Sydney train was a passenger train service operated by the Canadian National Railway and later Via Rail between Halifax and Sydney, Nova Scotia, via Truro and Port Hawkesbury. The train was discontinued in 1990. From 2000 to 2004, the Bras d'Or ran weekly summer excursion service along much the same route.
He was the minister of Truro's First Presbyterian church (now First United Church [15]) from 1839–1885, and had inherited an interest in Bible distribution from his father, Dr. Thomas McCullough, one of the founders of the Nova Scotia Bible Society. He distributed Bibles, free of charge, to anyone who wanted one. [16]
Midland Railway was a Nova Scotian railway company formed in 1896 to build a railway through Hants County, Nova Scotia, connecting Truro to Windsor.Completed in 1901, it operated independently until 1905 when it became part of the Dominion Atlantic Railway and later the Canadian Pacific Railway, until the line closed in 1983.
It is based in Truro, Nova Scotia. The company is owned by Trucorp Investments Inc. of Dieppe, New Brunswick. William Hay is the chairman of Trucorp, which also owns Bonte Foods, Ltd., Frank and Gino's restaurant, and Chris Brothers food products. The company ranked 77th out of 101 top companies in Atlantic Canada in 2004.