Backyard History

Arts & Culture Podcasts

🦞 Forgotten Stories From Atlantic Canada’s Past 🦞 From the popular column in 20+ newspapers, Backyard History combines The Maritimes' classic storytelling traditions with meticulous archival research and features more than a dozen voice actors to...

Location:

Canada

Genres:

Arts & Culture Podcasts

Description:

🦞 Forgotten Stories From Atlantic Canada’s Past 🦞 From the popular column in 20+ newspapers, Backyard History combines The Maritimes' classic storytelling traditions with meticulous archival research and features more than a dozen voice actors to immerse you in the rich past of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland. Produced by Jordan Lauzier. 📕 Buy the FOUR Backyard History books at backyardhistory.ca

Language:

English

Website:

https://backyardhistory.podbean.com/

Episodes

Bogged Down in Cape Breton - Beryl Markham's Historic Flight Part 2

3/23/2026

Duration:00:27:50

Bogged Down in Cape Breton - Part 1

2/12/2026

Duration:00:25:57

Captain William Milne's Gold Watch

1/14/2026

Duration:00:15:55

Home for Christmas: The Pilot Who Returned from the Dead

12/23/2025

Duration:00:22:46

The Residence Ghost

10/31/2025

The story of Fredericton's very friendly ghost!

Duration:00:15:05

Blue Water: The Movie Hollywood Wanted to Sink

10/6/2025

Duration:00:21:26

When Canada and America Went to War, Two Towns Chose Peace

8/19/2025

Duration:00:20:05

Comedy on the Rocks: When Comedians Stuck at Sea Turned Disaster into Drama

5/19/2025

Little Pictou Island, Nova Scotia, gets its first ever play in the most unusual of circumstances ... after a winter ferry from PEI gets stuck in the ice and drifts over to the island! Get the Backyard History books at backyardhistory.ca

Duration:00:10:12

Only Men Can Vote (BYH LIVE)

3/7/2025

Duration:01:12:06

The Lost Diary: Journey of a Writer Who Vanished into the Heart of the Forest

2/24/2025

Duration:00:51:56

Breakfast with the Dungarvon Whooper

1/20/2025

Duration:00:19:13

The Quarantine Journal of Nellie McGowan

1/4/2025

Duration:00:18:26

A Halifax Christmas Murder

12/25/2024

Duration:00:19:18

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