Isolated islanders find a unique way to let Canadians know a storm cut them off from the mainland.
Feb 12, 2024
21 min
As Babe Ruth's life fell apart, he headed into the woods of the Maritimes in a secret and mysterious effort to get better...
Feb 5, 2024
13 min
The Canadian Forces in Italy during WW2 rescue a horse who they name Princess Louise who accompanies them throughout Europe and back home.
Jan 11, 2024
25 min
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.
Dec 29, 2023
20 min
Backyard History's Christmas Special for 2023!
Dec 23, 2023
24 min
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
Dec 10, 2023
33 min
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
Nov 20, 2023
19 min
Two young men volunteer to for a mysterious secret mission in Russia. One of them will not make it home alive.
https://backyardhistory.ca/f/canadas-forgotten-siberian-expedition-ollie-winslows-odyssey
Nov 10, 2023
33 min
One of the Maritimes’ most popular ghost stories is the tale of a cursed, eternally burning sailing ship haunting the waters off of the Northern coast of New Brunswick.
https://backyardhistory.ca/f/the-ghostly-fire-ship-of-the-baie-des-chaleurs
Oct 31, 2023
20 min
Leon Trotsky missed the beginning of the Russian Revolution because he was in -of all places- Amherst, Nova Scotia.
https://backyardhistory.ca/f/trotskys-maritimes-revolutionary-roadblock
Oct 17, 2023
19 min
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