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Hosted by Andrew MacLean · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 112 episodes
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Backyard History unearths the often hilarious, mostly mysterious, always surprising untold tales of Canada’s East Coast, as only a Maritimer can spin them. Buy the books at backyardhistory.ca
Andrew MacLean hosts Backyard History, a history show with 112 episodes published.
The 1857 wreck of the Monasco off Burin, Newfoundland, killed nearly every passenger aboard — except for a mysterious woman claiming to be the captain's wife, the captain, and the crew. The survivors' account, however, d
The controversial American poet Allen Ginsberg arrives in New Brunswick for the only Canadian date on his legendary sold out 1967 tour reading his historic epic poem: Howl. The reaction to his Easter reading of that poem
An Acadian folk song tells the true story of a Moncton innkeeper's mysterious disappearance, unsolved murder, and miscarriage of justice. This special episode, featuring 13 voice actresses and actors, digs deep in the ar
A quiet Cape Breton day is broken by a plane crash, which soon attracts the attention of the entire world. The second part of a two-part series on famous, pioneering aviator Beryl Markham's historic transatlantic flight
The incredible story of Beryl Markham's legendary Atlantic crossing, an implausible story involving everything from royal affairs to Kenyan lions, which unceremoniously ended up in a Cape Breton bog. Part one of two! Thi
A gold watch was given to Captain Milne as a reward for his clever ruse that turned the tables on the men who captured his ship...
Declared dead in the Second World War, Atlantic Canadian pilot Allan Spear escaped captivity, survived behind enemy lines, and returned home for an unexpected Christmas reunion. Buy the books at backyardhistory.ca/books
A Maritimes movie is suppressed by Hollywood as it tries to kill off the Canadian film industry ... featuring a surprising appearance by a young Joey Smallwood! This story appears in the new book 'Backyard History: Myste
Canada and the U.S. went to war — but St. Stephen and Calais wouldn’t play along.
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 ba
A special LIVE podcast of "Only Men May Vote!" starring special guests Fredericton Mayor Kate Rogers, Green Party Leader and MLA David Coon, Poet Laureate Fawn Parker, Minister of Opportunities New Brunswick Luke Randall
A mysterious Englishman sailed to New Brunswick in the 1850s. His name and his fate are unknown. All that remains of him is his diary, which recounts an incredible adventure. Buy the Backyard History books at backyardhis
A long-lost interview in the forest sheds light on the man behind the Maritimes most famous so-called ghost... Buy the three Backyard History books at backyardhistory.ca/books
A young girl keeps a secret diary to solve a mystery as she is growing up on an island where new immigrants to Canada are quarantined. backyardhistory.ca
A dark murder mystery on Christmas in the old garrison city of Halifax changed the Maritimes.
100 years ago, a tragedy led to two crosses being painted on Sugarloaf in Campbellton. This is the story of what happened.
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
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
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Backyard History is hosted by Andrew MacLean. The show is categorised under history (society) and has published 112 episodes.
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