Backyard History

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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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."

A small-town boy from the Maritimes becomes obscenely wealthy and ridiculously famous in America for dentist circuses...

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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...

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When a Wolastoqiyik man wasn’t allowed on a stagecoach, he vowed to race it to its destination, and won!

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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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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!

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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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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...