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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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15:00

Fighting For Humanity’s Rights

Backyard History ·

2022/11/11

A baseball star becomes one of the few Black Canadians to fight in the First World War. https://backyardhistory.ca/f/fighting-for-the-right-to-fight

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28:30

The Lost Colony

Backyard History ·

2022/11/06

A simple question leads to a lost colony in Cape Breton.. What does “Fundy” mean? Where does the unusual name for the large bay between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia boasting the highest tides in the world come from? The short answer is that it’s Portuguese, but figuring out what “Fundy” means involves a lost colony, confused explorers, and a perplexing mix up.. There is some surviving evidence of a 1521 Portuguese lost colony in The Maritimes. If true, this would be the first European

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19:40

The Spectre of Rexton

Backyard History ·

2022/10/28

Is it a ghost haunting the woods or something else? A car load of four young people -two guys and two girls- were driving home from a dance on a dark and stormy Halloween night in 1930. They were on a dark road going through the woods between the small towns of Richibucto and Rexton on New Brunswick’s East Coast, when they had a bizarre close encounter with a ghost… https://backyardhistory.ca/f/the-spectre-of-rexton-bootleggers-dressed-as-ghosts

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20:23

Pandemic 1918

Backyard History ·

2022/10/21

One province defeats a pandemic and in the process influences all of North America, leading to improvements in healthcare all over Canada and the United States as they copy the latest developments in ... New Brunswick. https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/pandemic-1918-how-one-doctor-saved-new-brunswick

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12:37

Driving On The Wrong Side Of The Road

Backyard History ·

2022/10/01

Canada decides which side to drive on. For much of its history half of Canada drove on the opposite side of the road from the other half. Ontario and Quebec drove on the right, while British Columbia and The Maritimes drove on the left. When New Brunswick changed sides of the road the year became wryly known as “The Year of Free Beef.” https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/switching-from-driving-on-the-left-to-driving-on-the-right

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13:02

Teenage Girl Saves Shipwrecked Sailors

Backyard History ·

2022/09/22

"Oh my god we're saved by a girl," the sailor gasped before passing out. In 1882 a teenager was celebrated for risking her life heroically rescuing shipwrecked sailors in a cold Autumn storm. https://backyardhistory.ca/popular/f/oh-my-god-were-saved-by-a-girl-teenager-saves-sailors-at-sea

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10:04

The Pirate of Charlie Lake

Backyard History ·

2022/09/11

After a life of piracy, a man retreats to the woods to escape justice and hide his treasure. About an hour southwest of Fredericton is Charlie Lake, named after a mysterious hermit who lived there long ago, alone with his little dog. It was said the hermit was a pirate, hiding from the law, who had buried a great treasure by the lake which still bears his name.. https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/the-pirate-of-charlie-lake

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36:21

Exploring Canada’s Abandoned Spaceport

Backyard History ·

2022/09/01

The host enters an abandoned spaceport in the Arctic. An intricate maze of metal corridors connect the massive buildings far up in Canada's Arctic. It was once the centre of one of the world's leading space research facility. Later it became the center of an international race between Canada and the United States to build the world's first commercial spaceport. The winner would dominate the launch of the race of satellites in the then-upcoming 21st century. In this very special episode of the

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16:19

Road to Justice: How Mabel French Changed Two Provinces

Backyard History ·

2022/08/20

One woman's battle against lawmakers led to wins women's rights. One largely forgotten New Brunswick woman led --and won-- not one but two important battles for women's rights in two separate provinces -one on each side of the country; first in New Brunswick and later in British Columbia. https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/new-brunswick-woman-wins-fights-for-rights-in-nb-and-bc

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18:59

Canada’s Nuclear Bomb Drill Fiasco

Backyard History ·

2022/08/12

A 1961 nuclear attack drill goes awry. Air raid sirens rang out from coast to coast, and an eerie voice announced that Canada was under attack: 14 nuclear missiles were inbound. The sombre voice then went on to tell startled citizens that this was the beginning of a country-wide drill, and that for the next 24 hours Canada would be behaving as if it had just been the subject of a massive nuclear strike. The day was November 13th 1961, and for many Canadians this came as a surprise: while there

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18:06

The Mystery of the Lake Utopia Medallion

Backyard History ·

2022/08/05

A large stone with a face carved into it has people puzzled about who made it. In 1863 a recent Scottish immigrant was wandering through the stark and desolate area above Lake Utopia looking for rocks to build a fireplace when he made an astonishing discovery. When he wiped a thick layer of moss off a large flat stone, he discovered that carved upon it was an intricately detailed human face. Speculation that it was an ancient Egyptian artifact quickly

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11:34

Amelia Earhart’s Maritimes Visit

Backyard History ·

2022/07/27

Amelia Earhart visits Newfoundland and The Maritimes on the way to make history. Amelia Earhart kept her plans to become the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic a secret. But when she arrived in Saint John to refuel and spend the night, the secret was out and Saint Johners were in a wild frenzy to see the famous pilot about to make history… https://backyardhistory.ca/f/when-amelia-earhart-came-to-the

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08:38

The Mysterious Isle Haute

Backyard History ·

2022/07/13

Said to be home to spirits, pirates’ buried treasure, and a trapped ghost ship.. https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/the-mysterious-isle-haute

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19:46

When A German Escaped Prisoner Came To Town

Backyard History ·

2022/07/06

They had no idea the stranger who had come to Bathurst was an escaped Nazi Prisoner of War waiting for a U-Boat to get him..

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24:34

I’m Alone: Famous Rum Running Schooner

Backyard History ·

2022/06/30

The story of one of the most famous rum running schooners that was sunk during an epic pursuit in the 1920s

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10:25

A Brief History of the Lobster

Backyard History ·

2022/06/05

Lobster. From pauper to proper. A history. The North American lobster is now a staple of high-end restaurants, and a cultural icon in the Maritimes and New England, but this was not always the case. At one time lobster was considered a paupers’ food, something people were embarrassed to be seen eating because it showed that they were poor. It was fed to prisoners and slaves, used as fertilizers in fields, and feed for pigs. At one point servants would stipulate in their contracts that they could

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09:06

A Brief History of the Beach

Backyard History ·

2022/05/29

Here’s a question for a hot Summer day: did early Maritimers go to the beach? https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/the-history-of-going-to-the-beach

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22:35

Walking Across Canada On a Bet

Backyard History ·

2022/05/20

The first people to ever walk all the way across Canada were Cape Bretoners who did it because someone bet them they couldn't. https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/the-first-people-to-walk-across-canada-did-it-because-of-a-bet

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21:54

The Great Campbellton Fire

Backyard History ·

2022/05/10

In only two hours massive fire completely destroys bustling Campbellton. At 2pm on July 11th 1910 Campbellton was a prosperous town of 6000 people on New Brunswick’s North Shore. Two hours later it would be completely destroyed in a massive inferno. But it doesn't break the spirit of the people and they rebuild within a year. https://backyardhistory.ca/popular/f/in-only-two-hours-campbellton-burned-to-the-ground

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16:58

The Dungarvon Whooper

Backyard History ·

2022/05/01

The true story behind the chilling ghost story. Around Maritime campfires we tell the tale of the Dungarvon Whooper – a macabre ghost story of a cook who was murdered for a bag of money, and who haunted the forests making screaming noises that sounded like whoops. The story was based on actual mysterious incidents around Miramichi in the mid-1800s. In 1896 one Fredericton reporter may have discovered the true story behind those haunting screams. And his true story is even stranger than the ghost

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