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
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.
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
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
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
A dark murder mystery on Christmas in the old garrison city of Halifax changed the Maritimes.
100 years ago, a tragedy led to two crosses being painted on Sugarloaf in Campbellton. This is the story of what happened.
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
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
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."
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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." Book: backyardhistory.ca/book
A killer sent boxes of poisoned candies to religious leaders of Saint John, in this, the Backyard History's magnum opus episode!
Isolated islanders find a unique way to let Canadians know a storm cut them off from the mainland.
As Babe Ruth's life fell apart, he headed into the woods of the Maritimes in a secret and mysterious effort to get better...
The Canadian Forces in Italy during WW2 rescue a horse who they name Princess Louise who accompanies them throughout Europe and back home.
Juliana Horatia Ewing, a Victorian British author in Fredericton, formed an unlikely friendship with Welastekokewiyik master canoe builder Peter Polches, challenging societal norms; her transformative experiences led to a notable confrontation defending Indigenous people at a prestigious New Year's Party in 1869.
Backyard History's Christmas Special for 2023!
The dramatic rise and fall of Fredericton's curious detox centre, which involved patients taking a gold-based medicine to cure alcoholism! https://backyardhistory.ca/the-long-reads/f/the-dr-leslie-e-keeley-gold-cure-institute-for-drunkards
As explosions rang out in Halifax in 1945, ordinary Haligonians raced toward the central ammunition storage depot to stop the flames before the city blew up … again! backyardhistory.ca/f/the-second-halifax-explosion
Two young men volunteer to for a mysterious secret mission in Russia. One of them will not make it home alive. https://backyardhistory.ca/f/canadas-forgotten-siberian-expedition-ollie-winslows-odyssey
One of the Maritimes’ most popular ghost stories is the tale of a cursed, eternally burning sailing ship haunting the waters off of the Northern coast of New Brunswick. https://backyardhistory.ca/f/the-ghostly-fire-ship-of-the-baie-des-chaleurs
Leon Trotsky missed the beginning of the Russian Revolution because he was in -of all places- Amherst, Nova Scotia. https://backyardhistory.ca/f/trotskys-maritimes-revolutionary-roadblock
PEI didn't even know it was at war when the American fleet appeared. The invaders went house to house stealing clothes, carpets, and curtains ... and their Great Seal. However, one Islander who was taken captive went on to become an important spy...
