TRURO

troorˈō, town (1991 pop. 11,683), central N.S., Canada, near the head of Cobequid Bay, an arm of the Bay of Fundy. It is a railroad and industrial center, with lumber mills, printing plants, and other factories. The Nova Scotia Agricultural College there is the headquarters of the provincial agricultural extension service. An early Acadian settlement called Cobequid, the town was destroyed (1755) when the Acadians were expelled. After 1759 it received settlers from New England and Northern Ireland, who named the town for Truro, England.

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books on: Truro  - 807 results

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Micmacs and Colonists: Indian-White Relations in the Maritimes, 1713-1867
Book by L. F. S. Upton; University of British Columbia Press, 1979
Subjects: Maritime Provinces--History, Micmac Indians--Government Relations, Micmac Indians--History
...miles northwest of Halifax Sheet Harbour 36 Truro On both shores of Sheet 77 Harbour; 57...Indian Brook River; 18 miles southwest of Truro Sydney 28A Sydney 2 miles east of Sydney...Harbour; 66 1 mile south of city of Sydney Truro 27A Truro Adjoins south limit of 40 Corporation...
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Canadian Regions: A Geography of Canada
Book by Donald F. Putnam; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1952
Subjects: Canada--Description And Travel--1951-
...gravel terrace near the head of the tide, Truro has a strategic location as a "bridge...and now in the age of the automobile. Truro is too far inland ever to have been much...Bridge", about two miles to the west. Truro is a neat well-kept town with tree shaded...
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Massachusetts: A Guide to Its Places and People
Book by Frederic W. Cook; Houghton Mifflin, 1937
Subjects: Massachusetts, Massachusetts--Guidebooks
...Left on this road is the village of SOUTH TRURO, 2 m ., in which is the Old Methodist...high barren dunes. The dunes of South Truro are unusually fine specimens of drumlins...receding masses of ice of the glacial period. TRURO, 18.1 m . town, alt. 12, pop. 541...
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A Tour through England & Wales: Divided into Circuits or Journies - Vol. 1
Book by Daniel Defoe; J.M. Dent; E.P. Dutton, 1928
Subjects: England--Description And Travel--Early Works To 1800, Wales--Description And Travel--Early Works To 1800
...rivers from it, viz. Grampound, Tregony, Truro, Penryn, Falmouth, St. Mawes, and...not so antient as its neighbour town of Truro; and indeed, is in some things obligd...seigniorty; Namely, that in the corporation of Truro, the person who they choose to be their...
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Walker Evans
Book by James R. Mellow; Basic Books, 1999
Subjects: Evans, Walker--1903-1975, Photographers--United States--Biography
...photographs in a "peculiar landscape." The Truro photographs that turn up in his Cape Cod...summer visit he would make another trip to Truro in late November that Evans took one of...indicates it had been taken on a road near Truro. As an image it has an almost abstract...
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journal articles on: Truro  - 94 results

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The Truro Cordwainers' Play: A "New" Eighteenth-Century Christmas Play
Journal article by Peter Millington; Folklore, Vol. 114, 2003
Subjects: Christmas--History, Mysteries and miracle-plays--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
The Truro cordwainers play: a "new" eighteenth...attributed to Mylor is here re-ascribed to Truro in the late 1780s, using biographical information...the actors names did come together was in Truro (SW8244), particularly the central Truro...
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From Stage to Folk: A Note on the Passages from Addison's Rosamond in the "Truro" Mummers' Play
Journal article by Tom Pettitt; Folklore, Vol. 114, 2003
Subjects: Addison, Joseph--Influence, English drama--History, English drama--Social aspects, Rosamond (Theater)--Influence
...Passages from Addisons Rosamond in the "Truro" Mummers Play. by Tom Pettitt Following...and re-dating of the "Mylor" play to Truro and the 1780s, Peter Millington devotes...with an interest in folk drama. While Truro may be unique with regard to the specific...
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Where Did Captain Martin Pring Anchor in New England?
Journal article by Richard F. Whalen; Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Vol. 26, 1998
...Cape Cod, specifically at Pamet Harbor in Truro, just south of Provincetown. Subject...forty-second degree of latitude, as is Truro. De Costas arguments prevailed for about...harbor at the mouth of the Pamet River in Truro. Only by a great stretch of imagination...
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Edmund Wilson's Cape Cod Landscape
Journal article by Reuel K. Wilson; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 80, 2004
Subjects: Cape Cod Massachusetts, Diaries, Poetry, Wilson, Edmund (1895-1972), Writers, Writing
...came to see Edna St. Vincent Millay in Truro, Massachusetts, my father, Edmund Wilson...churches" (as my father called them) in Truro are no longer visible from Route 6. The...summer she invited him to visit her in Truro, where she, her mother, and her sisters...
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Rural Population Change in Nova Scotia, 1991-2001: Bivariate and Multivariate Analysis of Key Drivers
Journal article by Hugh Millward; The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 49, 2005
Subjects: Canada--Demographic aspects, Urban population--Forecasts and trends
...25,000 (in order of size these are Truro, New Glasgow, Kentville, Amherst, Bridgewater...urban centres. The towns of Kentville and Truro in particular are well-diversified county...can be overcome by commuting to nearby Truro. Not all areas of low unemployment show...
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Christmas from Truro
Magazine article; The American Organist, Vol. 43, October 2009
Christmas from Truro CHRISTMAS FROM TRURO. Truro Cathe- dral Choir, Robert Sharpe, director; Christo- pher Gray, organist. IV/49 organ (Henry Willis Sons: 1887, 1888, 1903; Hele Co.: 1924; Henry Willis: 1963; Mander: 1991...
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Robert Sharpe Plays Organ Music from Truro: the English Cathedral Series, Vol. X
Magazine article; The American Organist, Vol. 40, September 2006
...Robert Sharpe Plays Organ Music from Truro: the English Cathedral Series, Vol...ROBERT SHARPE PLAYS ORGAN MUSIC FROM TRURO: The English Cathedral Series, Vol...Robert Sharpe, organist. IV/49 Truro Cathedral organ ("Father" Willis...
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The Art of Matthew Benedict Shroud of Truro
Magazine article by Nayland Blake; Artforum International, Vol. 39, March 2001
Subjects: Art, Modern--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Benedict, Matthew--Works
THE ART OF MATTHEW BENEDICT SHROUD OF TRURO. by NAYLAND BLAKE That profound Silence, that only Voice of our God, which I before spoke of; from that divine thing without...
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An Almost Holy Picture
Magazine article by Heather Mcdonald; American Theatre, Vol. 17, February 2000
Subjects: Dramatists--Interviews, McDonald, Heather--Interviews
...There are other places in the play--Truro on Cape Cod, the bishops garden, the...Cod, in a field off the Pamet Roads in Truro. My father was with me. Perhaps that...the summer, Ariel, Miriam and I go to Truro on Cape Cod to that same house off the...
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2009 Guide to Summer Ordering
Magazine article; Arts & Activities, Vol. 145, June 2009
Subjects: Hobby stores--Directories
...6463 <br/ (Dist.) (Mfr.) <br/ Truro Center for the Arts, P.O. Box <br/ 756, Truro, MA 02666 <br/ Natl: (508)349-7511...6463 <br/ (Dist.) (Mfr.) <br/ Truro Center for the Arts, P.O. Box <br/ 756...
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Townsend Is the City Saviour against Truro; Lauren's Late Show Helps Net a Point in Cornwall
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), August 27, 2008
Townsend Is the City Saviour against Truro; Laurens Late Show Helps Net a Point in Cornwall. TRURO CITY 1 CARDIFF CITY LADIES 1 THE second game...City Ladies travel down to Cornwall to play Truro City in what turned out to be a thrilling 1...
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Terror Rowe Rocks Truro; PREMIER DIVISION
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), December 6, 2009
Terror Rowe Rocks Truro; PREMIER DIVISION. Stourbridge...7 Truro City...2 SUPER Stourbridge took Truro apart with a stunning seven-goal spree...
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Truro Make Last Stand for the Academies
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 5, 2007
Truro Make Last Stand for the Academies. Byline: JIM HOOLEY TRURO COLLEGE are the last men standing from the rugby academies...committees discretion. It will affect Daily Mail regulars Truro, Filton, Hartpury, QE Wyggeston and Worcester who...
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Martyrs Face Tough Truro Test
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), March 2, 2010
Martyrs Face Tough Truro Test. MANAGER Garry Shephard is demanding a big...home and now face another Penydarren Park test when Truro City visit South Wales this evening. Cornish club Truro were without a League match last weekend and their...
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Champion Truro Pack a Punch
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 2, 2009
Champion Truro Pack a Punch. Byline: JIM HOOLEY TRURO College became the first Cornish school to win the Daily Mail...Gloucester in yesterdays all-South West final at Twickenham. Truro used the power of their pack and the strength of centre Hanno...
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encyclopedia articles on: Truro  - 7 results

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Truro , City, Canada
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TRURO , city, Canada troor o, town (1991 pop. 11,683), central N.S...received settlers from New England and Northern Ireland, who named the town for Truro, England. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Cornwall , County, England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...administratively (since 2009) a unitary authority. Bodmin was the county seat, but the local government is now based in Truro. Cornwall is a peninsula bounded seaward by the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean and landward by Devon. It terminates...
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Mason, George
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...planters. In his triple capacity as trustee of Alexandria (1754 79), justice of the Fairfax county court, and vestryman of Truro parish, Mason exercised great influence in local politics. In 1752 he became a member of the Ohio Company (serving as treasurer...
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Benson, Edward White
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1829 96, archbishop of Canterbury, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was appointed (1877) the first bishop of Truro, and in 1882 he was appointed archbishop of Canterbury. His clerical writings include Cyprian (1897) and Apocalypse (1900...
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Davy, Sir Humphry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY 1778 1829, English chemist and physicist. The son of a woodcarver, he received his early education at Truro and was apprenticed (1795) to a surgeon-apothecary at Penzance. While director (1798 1801) of the laboratory of the Pneumatic...
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