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Bogged Down in Cape Breton - Beryl Markham's Historic Flight Part 2
Mar 23, 2026
27m 50s
Bogged Down in Cape Breton - Beryl Markham's Historic Flight - Part 1
Feb 12, 2026
25m 57s
Captain William Milne's Gold Watch
Jan 15, 2026
15m 55s
Home for Christmas: The Pilot Who Returned from the Dead
Dec 24, 2025
22m 46s
The Residence Ghost
Oct 31, 2025
15m 05s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 3/23/26 |  Bogged Down in Cape Breton - Beryl Markham's Historic Flight Part 2 | 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 that ended up in a Cape Breton bog. This is the cover story of the third Backyard History book, 'Rebellious Women In The Maritimes.' Find it at backyardhistory.ca/books | 27m 50s | ||||||
| 2/12/26 |  Bogged Down in Cape Breton - Beryl Markham's Historic Flight - Part 1 | 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! This is the cover story of the book 'Backyard History: Rebellious Women in the Maritimes,' available at backyardhistory.ca/books | 25m 57s | ||||||
| 1/15/26 |  Captain William Milne's Gold Watch | 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... | 15m 55s | ||||||
| 12/24/25 |  Home for Christmas: The Pilot Who Returned from the Dead | 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 | 22m 46s | ||||||
| 10/31/25 |  The Residence Ghost | The story of Fredericton's very friendly ghost! | 15m 05s | ||||||
| 10/6/25 |  Blue Water: The Movie Hollywood Wanted to Sink | 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: Mysterious Stories From Atlantic Canada's Past' which is available at backyardhistory.ca | 21m 26s | ||||||
| 8/19/25 |  When Canada and America Went to War, Two Towns Chose Peace | Canada and the U.S. went to war — but St. Stephen and Calais wouldn’t play along. | 20m 05s | ||||||
| 5/19/25 |  Comedy on the Rocks: When Comedians Stuck at Sea Turned Disaster into Drama | 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 | 10m 12s | ||||||
| 3/8/25 |  "Only Men May Vote!" (LIVE!) A Tale of Fredericton Women's Lost and Found Voting Rights | 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 and City Councillor Cassandra LeBlanc! Recorded in front of a crowd of a hundred people at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre in Fredericton on March 7th, 2025. | 1h 12m 06s | ||||||
| 2/25/25 |  The Lost Diary: Journey of a Writer Who Vanished into the Heart of the Forest | 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 backyardhistory.ca | 51m 56s | ||||||
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| 1/21/25 |  Breakfast with the Dungarvon Whooper | 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 | 19m 13s | ||||||
| 1/4/25 |  The Quarantine Journal of Nellie McGowan | 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 | 18m 26s | ||||||
| 12/25/24 |  A Halifax Christmas Murder | A dark murder mystery on Christmas in the old garrison city of Halifax changed the Maritimes. | 19m 18s | ||||||
| 12/14/24 |  The Story Behind the Crosses on Sugarloaf Mountain | 100 years ago, a tragedy led to two crosses being painted on Sugarloaf in Campbellton. This is the story of what happened. | 12m 28s | ||||||
| 10/24/24 |  The Ghost of Binstead Manor | 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 | 28m 38s | ||||||
| 10/10/24 |  The Man Who Was Hanged From the Gallows he Built | No description provided. | 18m 20s | ||||||
| 9/21/24 |  The Hate Preacher | 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 | 32m 55s | ||||||
| 8/13/24 |  Nova Scotia's Queen of the Bootleggers | 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." | 13m 50s | ||||||
| 6/19/24 |  Painless Parker: Renegade Dentist | 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 | 28m 44s | ||||||
| 6/5/24 |  The Rise and Fall of George Black and the Golden Seven | 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! | 27m 06s | ||||||
| 5/25/24 |  The Detective and the Trapper | 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/books | 13m 32s | ||||||
| 5/4/24 |  Denied a Seat: Wolastoqiyik Man Races Stagecoach 100 kilometers | 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 | 10m 26s | ||||||
| 4/10/24 |  Liberty on the Rocks (Part 3): Captured in Charlottetown | 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 | 18m 22s | ||||||
| 4/1/24 |  Liberty on the Rocks (Part 2): Initiation of a Lunenburg Rum Runner | 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 | 24m 52s | ||||||
| 3/25/24 |  Liberty on the Rocks (Part 1): Shootout at Bouctouche | 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 | 21m 36s | ||||||
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