Backyard History

PEI didn't even know it was at war when the American fleet appeared. The invaders went house to house stealing clothes, carpets, and curtains ... and their Great Seal. However, one Islander who was taken captive went on to become an important spy...

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A spy arrives by U-Boat to sabotage Canada. He isn't very good.

https://backyardhistory.ca/the-long-reads/f/the-worlds-worst-nazi-spy

Houdini goes to Halifax. When his circus is arrested, he has to reevaluate his whole career.

https://backyardhistory.ca/f/how-his-maritimes-tour-saved-harry-houdini-pt-2-halifax

A young Harry Houdini was on the verge of giving up on magic until a Maritimes tour changed his life.

https://backyardhistory.ca/f/how-his-maritimes-tour-saved-harry-houdini-pt-1-saint-john

A forest fire approaches the thriving town of Musquash, sending its residents fleeing to a nearby marsh for safety.

Musquash was a thriving community on the Bay of Fundy, boasting several factories, mills, a railway station, and a port. All of that came to an abrupt end when the town was completely destroyed in only a couple of hours one afternoon in 1903.

https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/the-forest-fire-that-destroyed-musquash

Everyone ignored the warnings. But the predictions were right: the storm of the century hit at exactly the hour that one man had predicted a year before...

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Nova Scotia (and New Brunswick) came much closer to joining the United States than a lot of Canadians today would be comfortable with!

https://backyardhistory.ca/f/benjamin-franklins-worthless-nova-scotian-land

Two Kates go to the Yukon Gold Rush. One becomes famous, the other is forgotten. But who was the REAL Klondike Kate?

https://backyardhistory.ca/f/the-real-klondike-kate

In 1949, a little Canadian island off of the coast of Nova Scotia declared itself to be its own country.  

Calling itself The Principality of Outer Baldonia, it quickly developed all of the trappings of an independent nation: it had its own currency, postage stamps, its own flag, and a coat of arms boasting on it pictures of a tuna fish, a sheep, and a smiling lobster. 

It soon became “one of the zaniest hoaxes in the history of international affairs.” 

https://backyardhistory.ca/the-long-reads/f/the-nova-scotian-island-that-declared-independence

How did 111 Russian coins get buried in Bathurst? Who did it? Where did they come from and what happened to them? Lets dig into this Backyard Mystery!