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Backyard History — 109 episodes

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

2

Bogged Down in Cape Breton - Beryl Markham's Historic Flight - Part 1

3

Captain William Milne's Gold Watch

4

Home for Christmas: The Pilot Who Returned from the Dead

5

The Residence Ghost

6

Blue Water: The Movie Hollywood Wanted to Sink

7

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

8

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

9

"Only Men May Vote!" (LIVE!) A Tale of Fredericton Women's Lost and Found Voting Rights

10

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

11

Breakfast with the Dungarvon Whooper

12

The Quarantine Journal of Nellie McGowan

13

A Halifax Christmas Murder

14

The Story Behind the Crosses on Sugarloaf Mountain

15

The Ghost of Binstead Manor

16

The Man Who Was Hanged From the Gallows he Built

17

The Hate Preacher

18

Nova Scotia's Queen of the Bootleggers

19

Painless Parker: Renegade Dentist

20

The Rise and Fall of George Black and the Golden Seven

21

The Detective and the Trapper

22

Denied a Seat: Wolastoqiyik Man Races Stagecoach 100 kilometers

23

Liberty on the Rocks (Part 3): Captured in Charlottetown

24

Liberty on the Rocks (Part 2): Initiation of a Lunenburg Rum Runner

25

Liberty on the Rocks (Part 1): Shootout at Bouctouche

26

The Candy Killer: The Serial Killer Who Stalked Saint John

27

Message in a Molasses Barrel

28

Did Babe Ruth Detox in the Woods in New Brunswick?

29

Princess Louise: A Warhorse’s Tale

30

The Aristocrat & The Canoemaker

31

A Festive Flashback: Unwrapping Christmas 1868

32

Dr. Leslie E. Keeley Gold Cure for Drunkenness: and the Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Fredericton’s Addiction Treatment Legacy

33

The Second Halifax Explosion

34

Siberian Expedition: Winslow and Ollie’s Odyssey

35

The Mystery of the Ghostly Fire Ship of the Baie Des Chaleurs

36

Revolutionary Roadblock: Trotsky’s Imprisonment in Nova Scotia

37

American Invaders Stole P.E.I.’s Great Seal (And Still Haven’t Given It Back!)

38

The World’s Worst Nazi Spy

39

The Maritimes Tour That Made Houdini (Part Two: Halifax Residency)

40

The Maritimes Tour That Made Houdini (Part One: Saint John Residency)

41

Forest Fire Destroys Musquash In Only Two Hours

42

The Saxby Gale: Storm of the Century Predicted A Year Before It Hit

43

Ben Franklin’s ”Worthless” Nova Scotian Land

44

The Real Klondike Kate

45

The Principality of Outer Baldonia: Nova Scotia’s Whimsical Micronation

46

The Mystery of the Russian Buried Treasure

47

Giant Squid Attacks in Newfoundland

48

The Red Devil

49

The Cat Who Stopped a Nazi Prison Break

50

The Bungling Bank Burglar Who Got Stuck in a Chimney

51

The Interrogation of Emile Goguen

52

When PEI Banned Cars

53

The Radical Gardener

54

Valiant Amazon: Elizabeth Beard Fights The Americans

55

Rockwood Park: Coney Island of the Maritimes

56

The Battle of Fort Nashwaak

57

The Year of the Mice

58

The Italian Air Armada Comes To Town

59

The Dark Harbour Hermits

60

Nova Hollandia: When Canada Was A Dutch Colony

61

Wreck and Rescue of the Velma

62

Secret Diary From The Asylum

63

Sabotage In The Maritimes: The Vanceboro International Bridge Bombing

64

The Mysterious Disappearance of the Creamer Children

65

Fighting For Humanity’s Rights

66

The Lost Colony

67

The Spectre of Rexton

68

Pandemic 1918

69

Driving On The Wrong Side Of The Road

70

Teenage Girl Saves Shipwrecked Sailors

71

The Pirate of Charlie Lake

72

Exploring Canada’s Abandoned Spaceport

73

Road to Justice: How Mabel French Changed Two Provinces

74

Canada’s Nuclear Bomb Drill Fiasco

75

The Mystery of the Lake Utopia Medallion

76

Amelia Earhart’s Maritimes Visit

77

The Mysterious Isle Haute

78

When A German Escaped Prisoner Came To Town

79

I’m Alone: Famous Rum Running Schooner

80

A Brief History of the Lobster

81

A Brief History of the Beach

82

Walking Across Canada On a Bet

83

The Great Campbellton Fire

84

The Dungarvon Whooper

85

The Year With No Summer

86

Drinking in the Maritimes

87

Getting Away With Murder

88

The Rise of Mob Boss Joe Walnut

89

Moscow to Miscou - The Crashed Soviet Bomber

90

The Legend of the Legless Mystery Man

91

Was the First Car Invented in Canada?

92

The Great Fredericton Circus Riot

93

Abducted by a U-Boat

94

Oscar Wilde’s Tour of the Maritimes

95

Finding the Lost Electric City

96

The Mystery of Mount House

97

Wolf Attacks in New Brunswick

98

The Race Against Death

99

The First Flight in Canada

100

Christmas: 1868

101

Santa and the Flaming Tree Incident

102

The Fairy Who Saved Christmas

103

The First Christmas in North America

104

”Will My People Ever Forgive Me?”

105

Disguise & Heroism: The Secret Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds

106

The Nazi Spy Who Came To The Maritimes

107

Just Two Minutes To Go

108

Joe Walnut and the Madawaska Mob

109

The Lake Utopia Monster