A long-lost interview in the forest sheds light on the man behind the Maritimes most famous so-called ghost...

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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 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...

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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!)

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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."