“Truro, Nova Scotia” print by Duncan D. Currie (1889)
“Truro, Nova Scotia” print by Duncan D. Currie (1889)
At a time when most artists making bird's eye views were itinerant Americans making a business of their art, Duncan D. Currie was his own thing. A Wesleyan Methodist Minister, he was born in 1825 and spent much of his later life ministering in Moncton, Fredericton and Saint John.
He had a very fertile burst of creativity in 1888 and 1889 when he produced and published images of Buctouche, Dorchester, Londonderry, Lunenberg, Moncton, New Glasgow, Truro, Woodstock and Yarmouth. This particular map of Truro includes more than sixty architectural vignettes, a good many of which are of buildings still standing today.
A reproduction available at 16x12" or 24x18" on Epson Enhanced Matte 192 gsm paper printed with Epson UltraChrome XD2 archival ink. Sold in an open edition, unframed. Restored from this public domain image found in the Library of Congress.