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Backyard History

🦞 Forgotten Stories From Atlantic Canada’s Past 🦞From the popular column in 20+ newspapers, Backyard History combines The Maritimes" classic storytelling traditions with meticulous archival research and features more than a dozen voice actors to immerse you in the rich past of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland. Produced by Jordan Lauzier.📕 Buy the FOUR Backyard History books at backyardhistory.ca

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23:57

The Principality of Outer Baldonia: Nova Scotia’s...

Backyard History ·

2023/05/09

In 1949, a little Canadian island off of the coast of Nova Scotia declared itself to be its own country. Calling itself The Principality of Outer Baldonia, it quickly developed all of the trappings of an independent nation: it had its own currency, postage stamps, its own flag, and a coat of arms boasting on it pictures of a tuna fish, a sheep, and a smiling lobster. It soon became “one of the zaniest hoaxes in the history of international

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28:34

The Mystery of the Russian Buried Treasure

Backyard History ·

2023/05/02

How did 111 Russian coins get buried in Bathurst? Who did it? Where did they come from and what happened to them? Lets dig into this Backyard Mystery!

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28:15

Giant Squid Attacks in Newfoundland

Backyard History ·

2023/04/23

Giant squid attacked Newfoundland fishing boats in 1873. This was all the more shocking because at the time people didn't believe giant squid were even real. Soon, the entire world's attention would turn towards Newfoundland. https://backyardhistory.ca/f/giant-squid-attacks-in-newfoundland

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20:32

The Red Devil

Backyard History ·

2023/04/18

Flying Through History as The Red Devil Takes to the Skies! On a clear Autumn day in 1912 thousands of people gathered to see the world famous Red Devil. Amid a backdrop of the Saint John Exhibition -then the second largest in the country- competing with Toronto’s CNE for position of biggest Exhibition in Canada, another rivalry was playing out. The Red Devil’s pilot, Captain Baldwin, was competing with the airplane's then rival for the future of the skies; the hot air balloon, and its

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18:11

The Cat Who Stopped a Nazi Prison Break

Backyard History ·

2023/04/10

Camp B-70, near Fredericton, held captured German Nazis and Fascist Italians during the Second World War. The prisoners and guards played an elaborate game of cat and mouse, with constant attempts at escape. Remarkably, one escape was actually stopped by an actual real live cat, who had been performing in the camp as part of a traveling circus..

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20:21

The Bungling Bank Burglar Who Got Stuck in a Chimney

Backyard History ·

2023/04/01

When a bank robber gets stuck in a chimney on April Fools Day, nobody believes a 12 year old boy trying to save him.. On the cold and moonless night in the winter of 1848, the only ever attempted robbery of the Bank of New Brunswick in Saint John took place. It was not the least bit successful, and turned into quite the bizarre -but true- night long incident. https://backyardhistory.ca/f/bungling-bank-burglar-gets-stuck-in-chimney

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34:41

The Interrogation of Emile Goguen

Backyard History ·

2023/03/28

“While I am writing to you the shells are screaming and the bullets are hitting but why should I care? I have just had a good meal!” wrote Emile Goguen, an Acadian lumberjack from New Brunswick who had volunteered to go fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War, and who would be interrogated about his activities while there. More than 1500 Canadians volunteered to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. The only New Brunswicker to join was Emile Goguen.

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24:18

When PEI Banned Cars

Backyard History ·

2023/03/21

Prince Edward Island was the first place in Canada to have a car ... and the only province to ban them! https://backyardhistory.ca/f/when-pei-banned-cars

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23:14

The Radical Gardener

Backyard History ·

2023/03/12

A beloved Canadian radio host and author had a radical past. In the 1960s a Maritimer achieved Canada wide fame for his talent in gardening. Known as Mr Green Thumbs, this kindly old man put out no fewer than four massive bestselling books on gardening, and ran a popular regular radio show on how to grow plants. Mr Green Thumbs’ many dedicated fans likely didn’t know that behind the friendly voice and the kindly writing style of the old man, was a devoted lifelong communist who was so dedicated

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16:44

Valiant Amazon: Elizabeth Beard Fights The Americans

Backyard History ·

2023/03/05

Elizabeth Beard fought in the American Revolution ... against the Americans. One New Brunswick woman became something of a worldwide sensation for her remarkable feats fighting in the American Revolution. She was fighting not for the Americans though, but against them. Her heroics were completely overlooked and forgotten during that chaotic time, but late her life, the public learned about what she had done decades earlier, and stories of her youthful acts became widely known all over both

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16:08

Rockwood Park: Coney Island of the Maritimes

Backyard History ·

2023/02/27

Saint John's genteel Rockwood Park was once turned into a modern electric circus. For several years Saint John’s iconic Rockwood Park –the largest urban park in Canada at the time– was turned into a summer fair grounds based on Coney Island. In the early 1900s it featured rides that had never been seen before like a ferris wheel and merry go around, nightly fireworks, bars and restaurants, and acrobatic performances so daring the daredevil chickened out, but a local waiter stepped in to perform them

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24:22

The Battle of Fort Nashwaak

Backyard History ·

2023/02/20

Like the Alamo, but in Fredericton. Fredericton’s first European settlement was a French fort, which was attacked and besieged by a fleet from New England. The story of the battle is kind of like the American myth of the Alamo. A small and beleaguered band of defenders is facing down a vastly larger and better equipped army of invaders. Except in this case they are coming up from what is now the United States. The invaders have a reputation for massacres, and losing the battle would likely mean

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12:05

The Year of the Mice

Backyard History ·

2023/02/12

In 1815 Nova Scotia was overrun by mice. Dr. George Patterson later interviewed people who lived through what was called Year of the Mice. The horrors of that year left a mark on those who had experienced it so deep that he found that elderly people that had personally experienced the mouse invasion still used it as a measurement of time. ‘Sixty-two Years After The Mice,’ Dr. Patterson wrote that these had been no ordinary mice: “They were very destructive and actually fierce. If pursued, when

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33:17

The Italian Air Armada Comes To Town

Backyard History ·

2023/02/06

A fleet of Fascist Italian airplanes stop in a little seaside resort town in the Maritimes … with a dark political agenda. On July 13th 1933 a reporter for the Moncton Daily Times was rushing towards the newly built wharfs of the tiny seaside village of Shediac. He is trying to make it in time to catch a glimpse of an incredible sight: 24 massive airplanes flying in a giant V formation that were arriving all the way from Italy... To see plenty of photos of the Italian Air Armada's arrival in

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16:19

The Dark Harbour Hermits

Backyard History ·

2023/01/26

*Top Episode of 2023! In the 1920s two hermit brothers on Grand Manan became internationally famous as the mysterious “Dark Harbour Hermits.” Hundreds of tourists from the United States and even faraway Europe came to visit them in their homemade shacks on the beaches of the strange and isolated place known as Dark Harbour, where the hermits would entertain the tourists with their art, their poems, and their songs. backyardhistory.ca

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25:26

Nova Hollandia: When Canada Was A Dutch Colony

Backyard History ·

2023/01/10

The Maritimes were briefly the Dutch colony of Nova Hollandia.. We’re always taught in school that ever since European colonists arrived in what is now Canada, that it was always a colony of either England or France. However, it’s a little-known fact that for a brief time the Maritimes were conquered by the Dutch, and were a short lived colony with a remarkably bizarre history, named Nova Hollandia. https://backyardhistory.ca/f/when-the-maritimes-were-dutch

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18:27

Wreck and Rescue of the Velma

Backyard History ·

2022/12/16

An unlikely trio is celebrated by a US President for their heroic rescue of sailors stranded for days on a rock in a storm. https://backyardhistory.ca/f/wreck-and-rescue-of-the-velma

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27:14

Secret Diary From The Asylum

Backyard History ·

2022/12/05

“They will not allow me to go home,” begins the haunting diary that Mary Huestis Pengilly wrote while locked up in the Saint John Lunatic Asylum, Canada’s first ever mental health institution. She wrote vividly in a secret diary about her experiences as a patient in the Asylum in the 1880s, which she later published into a book. After her release, she became a high profile and outspoken advocate for reforming how mental health was treated in both Canada and the United

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16:52

Sabotage In The Maritimes: The Vanceboro...

Backyard History ·

2022/11/27

The Maritimes were home to the only German bombing in North America in World War One. Fortunately the Agent wasn't very good, and was more than willing to tell everything to an intrepid reporter... https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/german-agents-bombed-a-new-brunswick-bridge

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23:28

The Mysterious Disappearance of the Creamer Children

Backyard History ·

2022/11/20

Nothing was quite what it seemed... In the Summer of 1906 The Maritimes were captivated by a strange mystery when two young children disappeared in broad daylight from right in front of their house. One reporter, who signed her articles simply as The Special Correspondent, went to the tiny village of Cape Tormentine to investigate the disappearances. The more she learned about the case, the stranger it became, as she met a very unusual group of people, each of whom seemed to be hiding

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