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Truro | Nova Scotia

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Home Town of Opera Singer Portia White

Portia White had one heck of a voice. As the first Black Canadian singer to reach world-renowned status, she became one of the most inspirational women in Canada’s history.

At the age of six, White was already working towards that goal: she could often be found singing in her mother’s choir at the Halifax Baptist Church where her father was a minister. At eight, she was able to sing the soprano parts of Italian operas. And she was not only talented but determined, walking more than 15 km each week to attend music lessons.

Portia’s national debut occurred in 1941 at the Eaton Auditorium in Toronto. Her international debut came at the Town Hall in New York in 1944.

In 1964, she gave a Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth II at the opening of Confederation Centre in Charlottetown.

A monument commemorating Portia White stands on the grounds of the Zion United Baptist Church.

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Victoria Park

Now more than 130 years old, Victoria Park is a 3,000-acre treasure in the heart of Truro.

The beautiful and dynamic urban park boasts incredible natural features, including a dramatic steep-sided gorge, a winding river, cascading waterfalls, and a stately old-growth Eastern Hemlock forest.

Photo: Figure8, Wikimedia Commons

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Joseph Howe Falls

Joseph Howe Falls are in Truro. The falls are easy to find because they are in Victoria Park.

Above Joseph Howe Falls you’ll find a second falls, Waddell Falls.

Photo: Luke Dobek

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Glooscap Trail

Don’t miss to drive on the Glooscap Trail – a scenic must-to-see roadway.

The Glooscap Trail is located in Northwest Nova Scotia, along the shores of the Bay of Fundy and the Minas Basin. This is a great motorcycle route with some good eats and sights along the way. The road itself has some twisties along the shore and some spectacular views of the Bay of Fundy.

The route can be completed in 419 km and 7 1/2 hours of scenic riding.

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Home Town of Nobel Laureate Willard Boyle

An “electronic eye” co-inventor, Nobel laureate (2009) Willard Boyle was a Canadian physicist.

In 1969 Willard Boyle and George Smith, while working in Bell Laboratories, designed the first Charge Coupled Device (CCD). The CCD has become the bedrock of the digital imaging revolution including digital photography and video.

Willard Sterling Boyle was born on Aug. 19, 1924, in Amherst, Nova Scotia, and raised in the village of Wallace. He lived in Wallace at his death.

Boyle died in Truro in 2011.

 

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Bicentennial Biotechnical Garden

A series of gardens and an extensive plant collection on the 60 hectare

Agricultural Campus of Dalhousie University provides a living laboratory for the landscape horticulture program. Trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants, and farm crops are displayed and interpreted in both functional use settings and in naturalistic areas.

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Colchester Historeum

Colchester Historeum is a museum and archives preserving thousands of records, documents, publications and photos.

The Historeum offers an array of programs and maintains a collection of artifacts that depict the settling of the region to the present day.

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