Backyard History
Backyard History unearths the often hilarious, mostly mysterious, always surprising untold tales of Canada’s East Coast, as only a Maritimer can spin them. Buy the books at backyardhistory.ca
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 103
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
When Canada and America Went to War, Two Towns Chose Peace
Canada and the U.S. went to war — but St. Stephen and Calais wouldn’t play along.
Comedy on the Rocks: When Comedians Stuck at Sea Turned Disaster into Drama
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!
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"Only Men May Vote!" (LIVE!) A Tale of Fredericton Women's Lost and Found Voting Rights
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 B…
The Lost Diary: Journey of a Writer Who Vanished into the Heart of the Forest
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.
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Breakfast with the Dungarvon Whooper
A long-lost interview in the forest sheds light on the man behind the Maritimes most famous so-called ghost...
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The Quarantine Journal of Nellie McGowan
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.
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A Halifax Christmas Murder
A dark murder mystery on Christmas in the old garrison city of Halifax changed the Maritimes.
The Story Behind the Crosses on Sugarloaf Mountain
100 years ago, a tragedy led to two crosses being painted on Sugarloaf in Campbellton. This is the story of what happened.
The Ghost of Binstead Manor
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...
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The Hate Preacher
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 local…
Nova Scotia's Queen of the Bootleggers
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 Maso…
Painless Parker: Renegade Dentist
A small-town boy from the Maritimes becomes obscenely wealthy and ridiculously famous in America for dentist circuses...
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The Rise and Fall of George Black and the Golden Seven
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!
The Detective and the Trapper
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...
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Denied a Seat: Wolastoqiyik Man Races Stagecoach 100 kilometers
When a Wolastoqiyik man wasn’t allowed on a stagecoach, he vowed to race it to its destination, and won!
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Liberty on the Rocks (Part 3): Captured in Charlottetown
The dramatic grand finale of the rum running boat The Liberty in part three of the Liberty On The Rocks trilogy.
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Liberty on the Rocks (Part 2): Initiation of a Lunenburg Rum Runner
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.
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Liberty on the Rocks (Part 1): Shootout at Bouctouche
The Mounties lay a trap for The Liberty, the most famous rum running ship in the Maritimes during Prohibition!
Part one of a three part series called "Liberty On The Rocks."
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The Candy Killer: The Serial Killer Who Stalked Saint John
A killer sent boxes of poisoned candies to religious leaders of Saint John, in this, the Backyard History's magnum opus episode!