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 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
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
Episodes
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
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
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