• The Story Behind the Crosses on Sugarloaf Mountain
    Dec 14 2024

    100 years ago, a tragedy led to two crosses being painted on Sugarloaf in Campbellton. This is the story of what happened.

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    12 mins
  • The Ghost of Binstead Manor
    Oct 24 2024

    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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    29 mins
  • The Man Who Was Hanged From the Gallows he Built
    18 mins
  • The Hate Preacher
    Sep 21 2024

    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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    33 mins
  • Nova Scotia's Queen of the Bootleggers
    Aug 13 2024

    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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    14 mins
  • Painless Parker: Renegade Dentist
    Jun 19 2024

    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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    29 mins
  • The Rise and Fall of George Black and the Golden Seven
    Jun 5 2024

    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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    27 mins
  • The Detective and the Trapper
    May 25 2024

    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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    14 mins