Backyard History
Arts & Culture Podcasts
🦞 Forgotten Stories From Atlantic Canada’s Past 🦞 Backyard History Podcast goes beyond traditional storytelling by using more than a dozen actors to voice actual historical quotes, immersing you in the drama and intrigue of the past. Whether it’s tales of daring exploits, mysterious events, or legendary figures, this family-friendly podcast offers an engaging and dynamic way to explore the rich history of Atlantic Canada. Hosted & written by Andrew MacLean, the podcast expands on his popular weekly Backyard History column which appears in 19 newspapers in the Maritimes. Produced by Jordan Lauzier. 📕 Buy the book! backyardhistory.ca/book
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Canada
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Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
🦞 Forgotten Stories From Atlantic Canada’s Past 🦞 Backyard History Podcast goes beyond traditional storytelling by using more than a dozen actors to voice actual historical quotes, immersing you in the drama and intrigue of the past. Whether it’s tales of daring exploits, mysterious events, or legendary figures, this family-friendly podcast offers an engaging and dynamic way to explore the rich history of Atlantic Canada. Hosted & written by Andrew MacLean, the podcast expands on his popular weekly Backyard History column which appears in 19 newspapers in the Maritimes. Produced by Jordan Lauzier. 📕 Buy the book! backyardhistory.ca/book
Language:
English
Episodes
The Story Behind the Crosses on Sugarloaf Mountain
12/14/2024
Duration:00:12:28
The Ghost of Binstead Manor
10/23/2024
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...
This story appears in the new book 'Backyard History: Rebellious Women In The Maritimes'! Order your copy at backyardhistory.ca
Duration:00:28:38
The Man Who Was Hanged From the Gallows he Built
10/9/2024
Duration:00:18:20
The Hate Preacher
9/21/2024
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!)
Buy the book 'Backyard History: Forgotten Stories From Atlantic Canada's Past' at backyardhistory.ca
Duration:00:32:55
Nova Scotia's Queen of the Bootleggers
8/12/2024
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."
Duration:00:13:50
Painless Parker: Renegade Dentist
6/19/2024
A small-town boy from the Maritimes becomes obscenely wealthy and ridiculously famous in America for dentist circuses...
This story appears in the brand new SECOND Backyard History book! Order a signed copy at backyardhistory.ca/book
Duration:00:28:44
The Rise and Fall of George Black and the Golden Seven
6/4/2024
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!
Duration:00:27:06
The Detective and the Trapper
5/25/2024
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...
Order the Backyard History book at backyardhistory.ca/book
Duration:00:13:32
Denied a Seat: Wolastoqiyik Man Races Stagecoach 100 kilometers
5/4/2024
When a Wolastoqiyik man wasn’t allowed on a stagecoach, he vowed to race it to its destination, and won!
Buy the book: backyardhistory.ca/book
Duration:00:10:26
Liberty on the Rocks (Part 3): Captured in Charlottetown
4/9/2024
The dramatic grand finale of the rum running boat The Liberty in part three of the Liberty On The Rocks trilogy.
Order a signed copy of the Backyard History book at backyardhistory.ca/book
Duration:00:18:22
Liberty on the Rocks (Part 2): Initiation of a Lunenburg Rum Runner
4/1/2024
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!
Buy the Backyard History book at backyardhistory.ca/book
Duration:00:24:52
Liberty on the Rocks (Part 1): Shootout at Bouctouche
3/24/2024
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."
Book: backyardhistory.ca/book
Duration:00:21:36
The Candy Killer: The Serial Killer Who Stalked Saint John
3/5/2024
A killer sent boxes of poisoned candies to religious leaders of Saint John, in this, the Backyard History's magnum opus episode!
Duration:00:58:23
Message in a Molasses Barrel
2/11/2024
Isolated islanders find a unique way to let Canadians know a storm cut them off from the mainland.
Duration:00:21:01
Did Babe Ruth Detox in the Woods in New Brunswick?
2/4/2024
As Babe Ruth's life fell apart, he headed into the woods of the Maritimes in a secret and mysterious effort to get better...
Duration:00:13:07
Hooves and Heroes: Princess Louise, A Warhorse’s Tale
1/10/2024
The Canadian Forces in Italy during WW2 rescue a horse who they name Princess Louise who accompanies them throughout Europe and back home.
Duration:00:25:32
The Aristocrat & The Canoemaker
12/29/2023
Juliana Horatia Ewing, a Victorian British author in Fredericton, formed an unlikely friendship with Welastekokewiyik master canoe builder Peter Polches, challenging societal norms; her transformative experiences led to a notable confrontation defending Indigenous people at a prestigious New Year's Party in 1869.
Duration:00:20:50
A Festive Flashback: Unwrapping Christmas 1868
12/23/2023
Backyard History's Christmas Special for 2023!
Duration:00:24:58
Dr. Leslie E. Keeley Gold Cure for Drunkenness: and the Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Fredericton’s Addiction Treatment Legacy
12/10/2023
The dramatic rise and fall of Fredericton's curious detox centre, which involved patients taking a gold-based medicine to cure alcoholism!
https://backyardhistory.ca/the-long-reads/f/the-dr-leslie-e-keeley-gold-cure-institute-for-drunkards
Duration:00:33:37
The Second Halifax Explosion
11/19/2023
As explosions rang out in Halifax in 1945, ordinary Haligonians raced toward the central ammunition storage depot to stop the flames before the city blew up … again!
backyardhistory.ca/f/the-second-halifax-explosion
Duration:00:19:25