Downtown Truro

The Truro area was settled by ancestors of the Mi'kmaq First Nations Indians thousands of years ago. The first permanent European settlement occurred when Acadians established the colony of Cobequid in 1703 on the tidal marshlands and adjacent lowlands. Families from New England and Northern Ireland who, at the encouragement of the Governor in Halifax, settled on the former Acadian lands established this colony some 50 years later.