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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Sketches of historic Truro
  title info:
    title: Historic Truro
  name:
    name part: Ballard, Joseph M. A.
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Murphy, Minette
    role:
      role term: artist.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Art.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nsc
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Welcome to Truro, Nova Scotia, the town of long underwear and condensed milk, of First Presbyterians and Second Empire school buildings. This is where an anonymous journalist's critical descriptions of a resident's ratty fence and the deficiencies of an unkempt flower garden prompted uneasy citizens to seek the scribe's praise--or at least to escape his merciless judgments--by improving their properties. But Truro's first brush with the improvement ethic occurred in the summer of 1860, when news arrived that the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) would visit the town on his royal tour. The people of Truro mobilized, passing a resolution that everyone should be obliged to turn out with brushes to whitewash the town. Within forty-eight hours, Truro looked like a new place, and in the aftermath of the rush to honour their esteemed visitor, they discovered something about their own dignity. From that day, the people of Truro have taken pride in their town and they work hard to always have it present its best appearance. With more than ninety meticulously hand-drawn illustrations by Minette Murphy, and featuring Joseph Ballard's carefully researched histories, Sketches of Historic Truro offers a unique and beautiful inventory of Truro's most handsome historic architecture, including the Truro Federal Building (designed by Thomas Fuller, once the Chief Dominion Architect for the Government of Canada), Seton Hall (a wonderful example of a Second Empire-style mansion), and the Beaux Arts-style Colchester Historeum."--
  note: Joseph M. A. Ballard ; art by Minette Murphy.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn-ns
  subject:
    topic: Historic buildings
    geographic: Nova Scotia
    geographic: Truro
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    geographic: Nova Scotia
    geographic: Truro
  subject:
    geographic: Truro (N.S.)
    topic: Buildings, structures, etc
  subject:
    geographic: Truro (N.S.)
    genre: In art
  subject:
    geographic: Truro (N.S.)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    geographic: Nouvelle-Écosse
    geographic: Truro
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
  subject:
    topic: Buildings
  subject:
    topic: Historic buildings
  subject:
    geographic: Nova Scotia
    geographic: Truro
  classification: NA747.H78 B35 2022
  classification: 720.9716/12
  classification: cci1icc
  identifier: 9781774710760
  identifier: 1774710765
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 211126
    record change date: 20250318213034.6
    record identifier: in00004651616
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng