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Backyard History

Andrew MacLean

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

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Episodes

115 episodes

  1. The Ghost of Paddy Hollow 33:56
  2. Nova Scotia's Exploding Ghost Ship 18:27
  3. How Magnetic Hill was Discovered 11:50
  4. Dobbin the Diver and the Murderous Mystery of the Shipwreck Monasco 23:22
  5. Howl in the Maritimes: The Easter Allen Ginsberg Shook a City 20:25
  6. The Murder of Timothy McCarthy 45:02
  7. Bogged Down in Cape Breton - Beryl Markham's Historic Flight Part 2 27:50
  8. Bogged Down in Cape Breton - Beryl Markham's Historic Flight - Part 1 25:57
  9. Captain William Milne's Gold Watch 15:55
  10. Home for Christmas: The Pilot Who Returned from the Dead 22:46
  11. The Residence Ghost 15:05
  12. Blue Water: The Movie Hollywood Wanted to Sink 21:26
  13. When Canada and America Went to War, Two Towns Chose Peace 20:05
  14. Comedy on the Rocks: When Comedians Stuck at Sea Turned Disaster into Drama 10:12
  15. "Only Men May Vote!" (LIVE!) A Tale of Fredericton Women's Lost and Found Voting Rights 1:12:06
  16. The Lost Diary: Journey of a Writer Who Vanished into the Heart of the Forest 51:56
  17. Breakfast with the Dungarvon Whooper 19:13
  18. The Quarantine Journal of Nellie McGowan 18:26
  19. A Halifax Christmas Murder 19:18
  20. The Story Behind the Crosses on Sugarloaf Mountain 12:28
  21. The Ghost of Binstead Manor 28:38
  22. The Man Who Was Hanged From the Gallows he Built 18:20
  23. The Hate Preacher 32:55
  24. Nova Scotia's Queen of the Bootleggers 13:50
  25. Painless Parker: Renegade Dentist 28:44
  26. The Rise and Fall of George Black and the Golden Seven 27:06
  27. The Detective and the Trapper 13:32
  28. Denied a Seat: Wolastoqiyik Man Races Stagecoach 100 kilometers 10:26
  29. Liberty on the Rocks (Part 3): Captured in Charlottetown 18:22
  30. Liberty on the Rocks (Part 2): Initiation of a Lunenburg Rum Runner 24:52
  31. Liberty on the Rocks (Part 1): Shootout at Bouctouche 21:36
  32. The Candy Killer: The Serial Killer Who Stalked Saint John 58:23
  33. Message in a Molasses Barrel 21:01
  34. Did Babe Ruth Detox in the Woods in New Brunswick? 13:07
  35. Princess Louise: A Warhorse’s Tale 25:32
  36. The Aristocrat & The Canoemaker 20:50
  37. A Festive Flashback: Unwrapping Christmas 1868 24:58
  38. Dr. Leslie E. Keeley Gold Cure for Drunkenness: and the Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Fredericton’s Addiction Treatment Legacy 33:37
  39. The Second Halifax Explosion 19:25
  40. Siberian Expedition: Winslow and Ollie’s Odyssey 33:19
  41. The Mystery of the Ghostly Fire Ship of the Baie Des Chaleurs 20:08
  42. Revolutionary Roadblock: Trotsky’s Imprisonment in Nova Scotia 19:51
  43. American Invaders Stole P.E.I.’s Great Seal (And Still Haven’t Given It Back!) 19:53
  44. The World’s Worst Nazi Spy 18:51
  45. The Maritimes Tour That Made Houdini (Part Two: Halifax Residency) 23:26
  46. The Maritimes Tour That Made Houdini (Part One: Saint John Residency) 26:04
  47. Forest Fire Destroys Musquash In Only Two Hours 12:35
  48. The Saxby Gale: Storm of the Century Predicted A Year Before It Hit 20:09
  49. Ben Franklin’s ”Worthless” Nova Scotian Land 23:59
  50. The Real Klondike Kate 41:08