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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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17:21

The Year With No Summer

Backyard History ·

2022/04/25

A grey mist hung over the land which the rain never cleared. Snow fell in June and July. Frost came in August. Crops didn’t grow. The spectre of starvation hung over the Maritimes. One year Summer never arrived in the Maritimes, earning that miserable year the nicknames; The Poverty Year; Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death, and The Year Without A Summer. https://backyardhistory.ca/f/the-year-without-a-summer

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19:39

Drinking in the Maritimes

Backyard History ·

2022/04/18

If you think Maritimers drink a lot today, wait till you hear how much earlier generations of Maritimers drank!

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19:41

Getting Away With Murder

Backyard History ·

2022/04/04

A tragic true story of forbidden love, bloody murder, and miscarried justice in Fredericton. Elizabeth Driscoll was considered the most beautiful young woman in Fredericton. “A very sweet, ladylike girl” wrote famous British author Juliana Horatia Ewing who happened to be in town during the murder, trial, and subsequent riots. "But," Juliana wrote, "Elizabeth’s family has always been a bad lot.” https://backyardhistory.ca/popular/f/getting-away-with-murder

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08:50

The Rise of Mob Boss Joe Walnut

Backyard History ·

2022/03/30

After a small town mob boss starts making big moves in the black market, a straight-laced British detective goes undercover to try to figure out what is going on.

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14:36

Moscow to Miscou - The Crashed Soviet Bomber

Backyard History ·

2022/03/21

Much to a small village's surprise, a Soviet bomber crash lands in a bog. The world turns its attention to the 1939 race to get to first reach the pilots.

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10:30

The Legend of the Legless Mystery Man

Backyard History ·

2022/03/13

Unraveling a legendary Maritimes mystery. A few days before Christmas in 1859 a mysterious stranger was found freezing, but still alive, alone deep in the woods. Disabled from his injuries, he would be murdered to save the town money. Or did he escape death and start a new life? Coincidentally, around the same time he goes missing in New Brunswick, a mysterious legless man washes up on the beach of Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia. https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/the-legless-mystery-man

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10:31

Was the First Car Invented in Canada?

Backyard History ·

2022/03/07

Newspaper reports tell the story of a crazy invention seen driving around the streets of Saint John NB. Was it the first car to be invented?

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11:47

The Great Fredericton Circus Riot

Backyard History ·

2022/02/27

A circus rolls in to small town Fredericton, but tensions between the performers and the locals soon boil over. A dead snake is thrown on the stage, and a riot erupts..

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10:03

Abducted by a U-Boat

Backyard History ·

2022/02/20

During the First World War, the crew of a Canadian naval vessel was abducted by a German U-boat, but were surprised to find what they were met with on board. https://backyardhistory.ca/f/ship-crew-gets-captured-by-u-boat-in-bay-of-fundy-served-lunch

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20:35

Oscar Wilde’s Tour of the Maritimes

Backyard History ·

2022/02/12

When a young Oscar Wilde toured the Maritimes, not everything went according to plan. When Oscar Wilde’s tour of the Maritimes was being booked, it was not expected to be a success. Despite being heckled in Fredericton, and reports circulating around the world that he got arrested in Moncton, the tour was a rousing success. Every date was sold out, scalpers were selling tickets outside at outrageous prices, Nova Scotia's Governor gave him a personal tour of Halifax, he received rapturous

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08:10

Finding the Lost Electric City

Backyard History ·

2022/01/31

Lost deep in the woods of Nova Scotia on a maze of logging roads, I came across a faded sign saying “The Electric City - La Nouvelle France.” Intrigued, I followed it, and found the abandoned ruins of what had once been an egalitarian utopian society. It had been among the first places in the Maritimes to have electricity and running water, and even boasted a train which ran on wooden rails. https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/the-electric-city

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10:01

The Mystery of Mount House

Backyard History ·

2022/01/23

What are the origins of the mysterious Mount House and is it the oldest building in The Maritimes?

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12:48

Wolf Attacks in New Brunswick

Backyard History ·

2022/01/16

There aren't any wolves in New Brunswick, right? Well not according to these 19th century accounts of wolf attacks that took place throughout the province.

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12:02

The Race Against Death

Backyard History ·

2022/01/13

When disease breaks out in a remote northern community, two ace pilots battle the elements of a Canadian Winter to bring them much needed medicine.

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09:31

The First Flight in Canada

Backyard History ·

2022/01/06

A tale filled with ups and downs, as one man tries desperately to get his balloon into air, in what was the first ever flight in Canada, which took place in Saint John.

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09:15

Christmas: 1868

Backyard History ·

2021/12/23

Christmas through the eyes and told through the diary entries of average people living in the 19th century.

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08:39

Santa and the Flaming Tree Incident

Backyard History ·

2021/12/19

It took a while for people to adopt having Christmas trees in their homes. Perhaps because they used to be lit with open flames, and Santa once nearly met his end because of a flaming Christmas tree!

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12:12

The Fairy Who Saved Christmas

Backyard History ·

2021/12/12

The story of how Christmas was banned, and how before Santa Claus became popular, children hung the stocking by the chimney with care in hopes that Mab, Queen of The Fairies would soon be there.

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15:35

The First Christmas in North America

Backyard History ·

2021/12/05

Explore the unexpected -and heartwarming- tale of the first Christmases in North America. Just like the American Thanksgiving myth, excet actually real!

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13:28

”Will My People Ever Forgive Me?”

Backyard History ·

2021/11/28

An unhealthy lifestyle leads to coronation drama when King Bertie is set to take the throne but needs his appendix removed the day of the ceremony.

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