SpotlightFebruary2017

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Site work • Sewer/Water • Road Building Demolition/Hammer Work • All types of Gravels/Topsoils

Truro, NS Office: 902-895-5638 Cell: 902-899-6572 (Dave)

formerly Crossley Carpet Mills, was not only huge for Truro; it was huge for Nova Scotia. To have one of the leaders in textiles come and set up shop was incredible. It’s led to a few more success stories in the business park, I know that. There are almost 70 businesses there now, including homegrown Wilsons Fuel.” According to Truro.ca, the reasonably priced and fully serviced lots in the Truro Business Park allow for “Quick and easy access to Highway #102 and the Trans-Canada Highway, several nearby seaports, including the Port of Halifax, and direct rail line access located at the intersection of Atlantic Canada’s main north-south and east-west rail lines.”

“Well I guess it’s about location, location, location first and foremost,” Ben insisted. “For those not familiar with Truro, we are located in the navigational center of the province of Nova Scotia. We’re known as the Hub of Nova Scotia. If you’re inbound on the Trans-Canada 104 from New Brunswick going to either Halifax or to Cape Breton, you come through Truro. We’re an hour and forty-five minutes from Moncton, New Brunswick and the Greater Moncton International Airport and only forty minutes from the Halifax Stanfield International Airport.” “We are by tradition a distribution centre of the province,” Bill continued. “The last time I checked, 5 million cars per year go by Millbrook First Nation

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