Backyard History
Atlantic Canada’s Hidden Stories. Backyard History unearths the often hilarious, mostly mysterious, always surprising untold tales of Canada’s East Coast, as only a Maritimer can spin them. Based on host Andrew MacLeans’s newspaper column, and produced by Jordan Lauzier, and brought to life with friends voicing contemporary quotes! 🌐backyardhistory.ca 📧andrewmaclean@backyardhistory.ca Support Backyard History: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/backyardhistory
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Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Explore the unexpected -and heartwarming- tale of the first Christmases in North America. Just like the American Thanksgiving myth, excet actually real!
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
An unhealthy lifestyle leads to coronation drama when King Bertie is set to take the throne but needs his appendix removed the day of the ceremony.
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
A young woman disguises herself as a man to go and fight in the American Civil war as a soldier, nurse, and spy.
Sunday Nov 14, 2021
Sunday Nov 14, 2021
Tasked with a mission set to cripple Canada's supply routes during the second world war, a Nazi spy abandons his orders when the locals offer him nothing but kindness.
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Just two minutes before the end of the First World War, the final soldier fell: Nova Scotian George Price.
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
The Maritimes' biggest Prohibition Era rum running kingpin.
When you think of the Prohibition Era, the mind immediately goes to famous American gangsters like Al Capone. But The Maritimes were home to our own rum running gangsters, the biggest, most powerful and widely feared gang was “the Madawaska Mob” led by a man who chose the distinctly less-than-intimidating alias “Joe Walnut.”
Joe Walnut was described by his nemesis, Detective William Carr as “Tall and slim, agile as a cat, with thin, cruel lips. His eyes were black as coal, yet slightly protruding, with white bloodshot from constant drinking. He was reported to have a fiendish temper, and few scruples. He was a real adventurer – a relic of the old buccaneering type. There was nothing on earth he enjoyed more than to match his wits against those of the men who represented law and order.”
https://backyardhistory.ca/popular/f/joe-walnut-and-the-madawaska-mob
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
Sunday Oct 31, 2021
What lurks beneath the surface of Lake Utopia? Eye witness accounts tell the tale of a monster who stalked fishermen and visitors of the lake for years.