Backyard History

By Andrew MacLeanSociety & Culture Documentary History

Backyard History episodes

September 21, 2024 The Hate Preacher
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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33 min
August 13, 2024 Nova Scotia's Queen of the Bootleggers
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."
14 min
June 19, 2024 Painless Parker: Renegade Dentist
A small-town boy from the Maritimes becomes obscenely wealthy and ridiculously famous in America for dentist circuses...

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29 min
June 05, 2024 The Rise and Fall of George Black and the Golden Seven
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!
28 min
May 25, 2024 The Detective and the Trapper
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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14 min
May 04, 2024 Denied a Seat: Wolastoqiyik Man Races Stagecoach 100 kilometers
When a Wolastoqiyik man wasn’t allowed on a stagecoach, he vowed to race it to its destination, and won!

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11 min
April 10, 2024 Liberty on the Rocks (Part 3): Captured in Charlottetown
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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19 min
April 01, 2024 Liberty on the Rocks (Part 2): Initiation of a Lunenburg Rum Runner
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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25 min
March 25, 2024 Liberty on the Rocks (Part 1): Shootout at Bouctouche
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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22 min
March 06, 2024 The Candy Killer: The Serial Killer Who Stalked Saint John
A killer sent boxes of poisoned candies to religious leaders of Saint John, in this, the Backyard History's magnum opus episode!
59 min

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🦞 Forgotten Stories From Atlantic Canada’s Past 🦞

From the popular column in 20+ newspapers, Backyard History combines The Maritimes' classic storytelling traditions with meticulous…