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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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15:05

The Residence Ghost

Backyard History ·

2025/10/31

The story of Fredericton's very friendly ghost!

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21:26

Blue Water: The Movie Hollywood Wanted to Sink

Backyard History ·

2025/10/06

A Maritimes movie is suppressed by Hollywood as it tries to kill off the Canadian film industry ... featuring a surprising appearance by a young Joey Smallwood!This story appears in the new book 'Backyard History: Mysterious Stories From Atlantic Canada's Past' which is available at backyardhistory.ca

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20:05

When Canada and America Went to War, Two Towns Chose...

Backyard History ·

2025/08/19

Calais and St. Stephen have always enjoyed what journalist J. C. Furnas called an "imaginary border" because they mostly ignored it. But when Canada and the United States went to war, the two towns' close relationship faced its toughest test…

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10:12

Comedy on the Rocks: When Comedians Stuck at Sea...

Backyard History ·

2025/05/19

Little Pictou Island, Nova Scotia, gets its first ever play in the most unusual of circumstances ... after a winter ferry from PEI gets stuck in the ice and drifts over to the island!Get the Backyard History books at backyardhistory.ca

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01:12:06

"Only Men May Vote!" (LIVE!) A Tale of Fredericton...

Backyard History ·

2025/03/08

A special LIVE podcast of "Only Men May Vote!" starring special guests Fredericton Mayor Kate Rogers, Green Party Leader and MLA David Coon, Poet Laureate Fawn Parker, Minister of Opportunities New Brunswick Luke Randall and City Councillor Cassandra LeBlanc!Recorded in front of a crowd of a hundred people at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre in Fredericton on March 7th, 2025.

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51:56

The Lost Diary: Journey of a Writer Who Vanished into...

Backyard History ·

2025/02/25

A mysterious Englishman sailed to New Brunswick in the 1850s. His name and his fate are unknown. All that remains of him is his diary, which recounts an incredible adventure.Buy the Backyard History books at backyardhistory.ca

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19:13

Breakfast with the Dungarvon Whooper

Backyard History ·

2025/01/21

A long-lost interview in the forest sheds light on the man behind the Maritimes most famous so-called ghost...Buy the three Backyard History books at backyardhistory.ca/books

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18:26

The Quarantine Journal of Nellie McGowan

Backyard History ·

2025/01/04

A young girl keeps a secret diary to solve a mystery as she is growing up on an island where new immigrants to Canada are quarantined.backyardhistory.ca

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19:18

A Halifax Christmas Murder

Backyard History ·

2024/12/25

A dark murder mystery on Christmas in the old garrison city of Halifax changed the Maritimes.

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12:28

The Story Behind the Crosses on Sugarloaf Mountain

Backyard History ·

2024/12/14

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28:38

The Ghost of Binstead Manor

Backyard History ·

2024/10/24

A Victorian aristocrat moves to PEI and encounters a ghost in her new house: the biggest mansion on the Island called Binstead Manor. She decided to investigate the haunting herself...This story appears in the new book 'Backyard History: Rebellious Women In The Maritimes'! Order your copy at backyardhistory.ca

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18:20

The Man Who Was Hanged From the Gallows he Built

Backyard History ·

2024/10/10

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32:55

The Hate Preacher

Backyard History ·

2024/09/21

Causing riots wherever he went, this Maritimer became a leader in the KKK, making a fortune spreading hate and division all over the United States! (He wasn't as popular in the Maritimes, where locals tried to throw him off a cliff!)Buy the book 'Backyard History: Forgotten Stories From Atlantic Canada's Past' at backyardhistory.ca

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13:50

Nova Scotia's Queen of the Bootleggers

Backyard History ·

2024/08/13

When alcohol was banned in Nova Scotia during Prohibition, reluctant liquor control inspector Clifford Rose encountered a charismatic woman leading a gang selling illegal booze. Her name was Amy Mason but everyone knew her as "The Queen of the Bootleggers."

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28:44

Painless Parker: Renegade Dentist

Backyard History ·

2024/06/19

A small-town boy from the Maritimes becomes obscenely wealthy and ridiculously famous in America for dentist circuses...This story appears in the brand new SECOND Backyard History book! Order a signed copy at backyardhistory.ca/book

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27:06

The Rise and Fall of George Black and the Golden Seven

Backyard History ·

2024/06/05

A trip to the Yukon Gold Rush leads to a series of completely unexpected twists, with a young Maritimer becoming the Speaker of Parliament ... and ending up sent to a lunatic asylum!

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13:32

The Detective and the Trapper

Backyard History ·

2024/05/25

Detective William Carr (who appeared in the Joe Walnut episodes) goes for a relaxing trip into the forest to learn to hunt and fish, but ends up being hunted by rogue trappers...Order the Backyard History book at backyardhistory.ca/book

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10:26

Denied a Seat: Wolastoqiyik Man Races Stagecoach 100...

Backyard History ·

2024/05/04

When a Wolastoqiyik man wasn’t allowed on a stagecoach, he vowed to race it to its destination, and won!Buy the book: backyardhistory.ca/book

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18:22

Liberty on the Rocks (Part 3): Captured in Charlottetown

Backyard History ·

2024/04/10

The dramatic grand finale of the rum running boat The Liberty in part three of the Liberty On The Rocks trilogy.Order a signed copy of the Backyard History book at backyardhistory.ca/book

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24:52

Liberty on the Rocks (Part 2): Initiation of a...

Backyard History ·

2024/04/01

At age 15, Hugh Corkum becomes a rum runner to provide for his family after his father, a Lunenburg Nova Scotia sea captain, loses his job after crashing into an American sumbarine.Part Two of the 'Liberty On The Rocks' trilogy about the Liberty, the fastest rum running ship of Atlantic Canada! Buy the Backyard History book at backyardhistory.ca/book

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