Truro

Town in southeastern Massachusetts, in Barnstable County near the northern tip of Cape Cod, adjacent to Provincetown; population (1990 est) 1,600. Formerly a port and a fishing centre, it is now a summer resort and artists' colony; the US artist Edward Hopper lived and painted here in the 1930s. It was incorporated in 1709.

English Pilgrims from the Mayflower discovered a spring, named Pilgrim Spring, at the site in 1620. Truro's harbour is on Cape Cod Bay; its east coast is part of the Cape Cod National Seashore District. Cape Cod Light, the cape's oldest lighthouse, was built in 1797; it was replaced in 1857.

Truro

Town and administrative headquarters of Colchester County, central Nova Scotia, Canada, on the Salmon River, near the head of Cobequid Bay, 84 km/52 mi northeast of Halifax; population (1990 est) 11,700. It is a rail, commercial, and industrial centre in an agricultural and lumbering area. Industries include printing, food and beverage processing, metalworking, textile milling, and the manufacture of carpets, clothing, and building materials.

Truro was settled by Acadians, then New Englanders. Nova Scotia Agricultural College and teaching and business colleges are here.