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38-537: The phenomenon occurs at the entrance to the Minas Basin , which is known for the globe's highest tides. The turbulence does not result from a simple rip tide , but rather from the collision of three opposed tidal currents whose violence is enhanced by the presence of a subsurface reef that forces the water upward. The powerful incoming tidal current loops back and collides with itself while another current, coursing in semicircular fashion around Advocate Bay , slams into

76-504: A humid continental climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfb ) similar to the vast majority of The Maritimes with warm, wet summers and cold, snowy winters. The highest temperature ever recorded in Truro was 35.6 °C (96 °F) on 19 August 1935 and 15 August 1944. The coldest temperature ever recorded was −38.3 °C (−37 °F) on 22 January 1934. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Truro had

114-726: A spring tide only) and has one of the highest average tidal ranges every day. The waters of Minas Bay exchange with the main part of the Bay of Fundy through the Minas Channel which flows between Cape Split and Cape Sharp, creating extremely strong tidal currents. Near Cape d'Or, the turbulent collision of currents is known as the Dory Rips . The water in Minas Basin is a dense and nearly opaque reddish brown due to large amounts of suspended silt which are continually churned by tidal currents. At mid-tide,

152-566: A means of transporting commodities such as lumber, apples and gypsum and powered Tide mills at locations such as Canning , Hantsport and Walton . Mining included gypsum (several locations including Windsor and Cheverie), iron (Londonderry), barite (near Walton and the Eureka Mine at Five Islands), manganese (several locations including Cheverie and Tennycape), and copper (the Colonial Copper Company at Cape d'Or ). Gypsum

190-673: A very popular sport in Truro over the recent years. There is a minor lacrosse association, the Truro Bearcats Lacrosse Association, which allows youth to take part in organized lacrosse teams and games. As well, there is a junior A lacrosse team, the Mi'Kmaq Warriors, that plays in the East Coast Junior Lacrosse League. They play in the summer months out of the Colchester Legion Stadium . Truro has

228-517: 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 . The area has been home to the Mi'kmaq people for several centuries. The Mi'kmaq name for the Truro area, "Wagobagitik" means "end of the water's flow". Mi'kmaq people continue to live in

266-546: The Agricultural Campus of Dalhousie University , in the neighboring village of Bible Hill . Truro has three ice hockey rinks: Deuvilles Rink, Rath Eastlink Community Centre , and the Colchester Legion Stadium . Truro is home to the Truro Bearcats , a Junior "A" ice hockey team who are four time MJAHL Champions. (Canadian) Football is also a popular sport in the town with all games being played on Friday night at

304-628: The Annapolis Valley Shore to Minas Passage, between Parrsboro and Cape Blomidon ; (2) Central Minas Basin, from Minas Passage to the mouth of Cobequid Bay, the shortest line point between Economy and the Noel Shore; (3) Cobequid Bay which extends to the mouth of the Salmon River ; and (4) the Southern Bight, from the mouth of the Avon River to the shortest line between Cape Blomidon and

342-423: The Avon River . Rarely, fossils have been found at Evangeline Beach, Burntcoat Head, and other locations. These fossils include various shells ( brachiopods , molluscs ), sponges , trees , fish , amphibians , reptiles , and dinosaurs . Trace fossils include vertebrate footprints, fish fin-tracks , invertebrate trackways (ex. scorpions at Blue Beach), raindrop imprints, and wave ripples. They range from

380-583: The Bay of Fundy and a sub-basin of the Fundy Basin located in Nova Scotia , Canada . It is known for its extremely high tides . The Minas Basin forms the eastern part of the Bay of Fundy which splits at Cape Chignecto and is delineated by the massive basalt headlands of Cape Split and Cape d'Or . The Minas Basin is divided into four sections: (1) the Minas Channel, from the shortest line between Cape Chignecto and

418-571: The 1980s, Truro also hosted a junction between the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railway 's former Dominion Atlantic Railway line running through Windsor and down the Annapolis Valley to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia . An important highway interchange is located just north of Truro in the rural community of Onslow where Highway 102 ends at Highway 104 - both four lane expressways. Secondary roads Trunk 2 and Trunk 4 intersect in

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456-794: The Annapolis Valley through the Dominion Atlantic Railway in 1905 increased the town's importance as a transportation hub for Nova Scotia. The railway also attracted industries such as the Truro Woolen Mills in 1870 (which later became Stanfield's ) and provincial institutions like the provincial Normal School (later the Nova Scotia Teachers College ) and the Nova Scotia Agricultural College . The town officially incorporated in 1875. Many figures from

494-571: The British forcibly expelled the over 12,000 Acadians from Grand Pré , Pisiguit , Cobequid , and Beaubassin , in what became known as the Grand Dérangement, or Great Expulsion . During the Acadian era, virtually all inhabitants lived in distributed clusters or villages , with no single place dominating. The area was administered from Port Royal, later Annapolis Royal . The following table shows

532-812: The Eaton Auditorium in Toronto, and her international debut came at the Town Hall in New York in 1944. She gave a Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth II at the opening of Confederation Centre in Charlottetown in 1964. A monument commemorating Portia White stands on the grounds of the Zion United Baptist Church. A number of other prominent Black Canadians have roots in the town. One of Canada's most well known civil rights leader, Burnley Allan "Rocky" Jones ,

570-658: The Minas Basin were sustained by fishing , logging , farming , mining , boat building and shipbuilding . In the late 19th Century the Basin's shipyards produced some of the highest numbers of wooden ships in Canadian history and some of the largest, including the ship William D. Lawrence , the largest wooden ship built in Canada along with the giant barques Kings County , Canada's largest four masted-barque and Hamburg , Canada's largest three-masted barque. The tidal water also provided

608-696: The Noel Shore. Several large rivers drain into the Minas Basin: the Shubenacadie River , Cornwallis River , Avon River , Gaspereau River , and Salmon River . Lesser rivers include the Canard River , Diligent River, Farrell River , and the Debert River. Along the northern edge of the Minas Basin lies a chain of intermittent high-cliffed basaltic bluffs and islands called the Basalt Headlands . On

646-628: The Ottawa House Museum in Parrsboro in Cumberland County . The Mi'kmaq were the first people to inhabit the area around the Minas Basin. Mi'kmaq tradition ties the god Glooscap in with significant geographical features such as Cape Blomidon and Five Islands . European explorers and traders arrived in the early 1600s. Among them were the French explorer Samuel de Champlain who explored

684-692: The Truro Amateur Athletic Club (TAAC) grounds. Truro Raceway conducts harness races every Sunday. Truro is also home to a rugby club, which hosts the World Indoor Sevens Rugby Championships. Truro also has a senior baseball team, the Truro Senior Bearcats, that play in the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League . Their home field is at the Truro Amateur Athletic Club (TAAC). Lacrosse has become

722-473: The area at the Millbrook and Truro reserves of the Millbrook – We’kopekwitk band. Acadian settlers came to this area in the early 1700s. The Mi'kmaq name for the Truro area was shortened by the settlers to "Cobequid", and the bay to the west of the town is still named Cobequid Bay. By 1727, the settlers had established a small village near the present downtown site of Truro known as "Vil Bois Brule" (Village in

760-612: The basalts include calcite , magnetite , copper , and quartz (often as amethyst ). Beautiful agate is also found. In the sedimentary rocks, gypsum is commonly found at Blomidon, Clarke Head, and near Windsor in both the colorless variety (selenite) and the fibrous variety (satin spar), the latter sometimes being bright orange. Other minerals from the sedimentary rocks include pyrite , calcite , barite , manganite , and pyrolusite . Small amounts of fluorite , celestite , howlite have also been found at Cheverie. Truro, Nova Scotia Truro ( Scottish Gaelic : Trùru )

798-617: The beginning of the Carboniferous to the Jurassic . They were deposited when the region was warm and tropical , later when it was covered by a shallow sea, and later still when it was a desert . Minerals include a variety zeolites from the basalt cliffs at Cape Split, the area around Parrsboro, Five Islands and Cap D'Or. These include Nova Scotia's provincial mineral stilbite , as well as heulandite , analcime , chabazite , gmelinite , natrolite and thomsonite . Other minerals found in

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836-610: The burnt wood). Many Acadians in this region left in the Acadian Exodus which preceded the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. In 1761, the British settled the area with Presbyterians of predominantly Ulster Scottish origin who came from Ireland via New England . They named the new settlement after the city of Truro in Cornwall , United Kingdom. Originally a small farming community,

874-518: The collision point at a 90-degree angle. To warn mariners away from the Dory Rips, a foghorn was placed at Cape d'Or in 1875 and a lighthouse , which is still operational, was established in 1922. 45°17′27″N 64°46′27.5″W  /  45.29083°N 64.774306°W  / 45.29083; -64.774306 Minas Basin The Minas Basin ( French : Bassin des Mines ) is an inlet of

912-617: The construction of the Nova Scotia Railway between Halifax , and Pictou in 1858 caused the municipality to experience a fast rate of growth which increased even more when the railway connected to central Canada in 1872 and became the Intercolonial Railway . The Intercolonial, which later became the Canadian National Railway built a large roundhouse and rail yard in Truro. Further rail links to Cape Breton and to

950-491: The copper deposits at Cape d'Or at the entrance to the Basin in 1607. Champlain bestowed the name Port of Mines onto the nearby Advocate Harbour to reflect the seams of copper ore at Cape d'Or. While the French did not establish a mine, the name "Les Mines" became associated with the upper Bay of Fundy beyond Cape d'Or which became known as the "Baie des Mines"', later Anglicized to Minas Basin. French Acadian settlements began in

988-420: The currents exceed 8 knots (4-metre (13 ft) per second), and the flow in the deep, 5-kilometre (3.1 mi) -wide channel on the north side of Cape Split equals the combined flow of all the rivers and streams on Earth together (about 4-cubic-kilometre (0.96 cu mi) per hour). Several communities border the Minas Basin or the rivers that flow into it. The largest is the town of Truro which lies at

1026-448: The head of Cobequid Bay. Smaller centres include Parrsboro , Wolfville , Windsor and Maitland . Other communities include Great Village , Bass River , Five Islands , Economy , Walton , and Kingsport . Historically, the north and southern sides of the basin were connected by a succession of ferries, which operated for more than 200 years, from Acadian times to 1941. The last ferry connected Parrsboro, Wolfville, and Kingsport and

1064-597: The historically important Black Nova Scotian settlements of Guysborough County . Zion United Baptist Church, first founded in 1896 on Prince Street, has long been the spiritual heart of the community. Truro is also the birthplace of world-renowned contralto , Portia White (1911–1968). To support herself while taking music lessons at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts she taught school in Africville and Lucasville . Her national debut occurred in 1941 at

1102-546: The late 1600s first with settlements around the southern shore of the Minas Basin which became known as Les Mines . The Acadians had a particularly significant impact on the area in that they reclaimed considerable farmland through the use of dykes and aboiteaux . They founded in the area Grand-Pré , Les Mines , Pisiguit , Cobequid , Rivière-aux-Canards , and Beaubassin . Even today their dyke systems—greatly expanded by later additions—are still used near Truro and Wolfville at Port Williams and Grand Pré . In 1755,

1140-736: The major telephone and data communications lines in the province through the town. Six large sections of the Berlin Wall are located along the Cobequid Trail , on the Agricultural Campus of Dalhousie University . Truro has two public high schools, Cobequid Educational Centre and the francophone École acadienne de Truro . Post-secondary options include a campus of the Nova Scotia Community College , and The Institute of Human Services Education, Jane Norman College as well as

1178-477: The northern shore of the Minas Basin, around the Gaspereau River , and around the Salmon River , extensive areas of farmland have been created using dykes with sluices (one-way flow control valves), a form of polderisation . Burntcoat Head , located on the "Noel Shore" along the south side of the Minas Basin, is the location of the highest tidal range ever recorded, exceeding 16-metre (52 ft) (during

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1216-573: The population of the region during the Acadian era: The vacant Acadian settlements around the Minas Basin were succeeded by the New England Planters who arrived in 1760 and were later joined by Loyalists settlers in the 1780s. The Planters maintained operation of the ferry, rebuilt and expanded the Acadian dyke systems, and reclaimed more farmland from the Basin through projects like the Wellington Dyke in 1816. The communities around

1254-627: The provincial Heritage Property Act . Three areas of Truro contain many African Nova Scotian residents. The residents of Upper/Lower Ford Street (“the Marsh”) are descendants of Black Loyalists and Black Refugees . Young Street (“the Hill”) has people from a number of different cultural and ethnic diversities. Black Loyalist descendants make up the vast majority of people in the third area, West Prince Street (“the Island”). Many of Truro's black community has roots in

1292-475: The town's past were featured in over 40 tree sculptures which were carved in tree trunks after Truro lost most of its Elm trees to Dutch Elm Disease in the 1990s. As of 2018, most of these sculptures were suffering from severe deterioration and were taken down. The history of the town and surrounding county is preserved at the Colchester Historical Museum (c.1900-1901), which is designated under

1330-505: The town. Important tertiary roads Route 236 and Route 311 end in the nearby communities of Lower Truro and Onslow respectively. Some of these roads also form part of the Glooscap Trail which is a scenic drive for tourists. Truro railway station is served by Via Rail's Ocean line. Nova Scotia Power has several transmission line corridors in or near Truro; additionally Bell Aliant , EastLink and 360networks route most of

1368-804: Was called the MV Kipawo ferry, whose name was derived from the three communities. Provincial parks at Anthony (near Truro), Five Islands , and Cape Blomidon allow visitors to enjoy and explore the Minas Basin. Community parks interpreting the Basin include the Kingsport waterfront in Kings County ; the Walton Lighthouse and Burntcoat Head Lighthouse in Hants County and the Lookout Tower in Economy and

1406-679: Was raised in "the Marsh" neighbourhood of Truro. Art Dorrington , the first black hockey player to sign an NHL contract was raised in "the Island". Truro is known as the Hub of Nova Scotia as it is located at the junction between the Canadian National Railway, running between Halifax and Montreal , and the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway , running between Truro and Port Hawkesbury . Until

1444-593: Was shipped from Hantsport until 2009. There have been attempts to generate energy from the rough waters of Minas Basin. However, the attempts were not successful. Marine mammals include seals and porpoises . Fish include bass , shad, and flounder ; lobster , crab , mussel , and clam are common. Many types of seaweed , sponges , worms , seajellys and more are also found. Birds include sandpipers , terns (visitors only), eagles , falcons , seagulls , herons , and kingfishers . Fossils are found near Parrsboro , Blue Beach and other areas along

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