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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.
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Painless Parker: Renegade Dentist
A small-town boy from the Maritimes becomes obscenely wealthy and ridiculously famous in America for dentist circuses...
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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!
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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...
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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!
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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.
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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!
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Customer Reviews
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Always a joy to listen to. Buy the book! It has additional cool pics.
Great Podcast!
Very interesting local podcast.
Stories are presented very well.
Excellent production quality!
Sugarloaf Crisses
In 1967 Charlie Thomas of Campbellton repainted both crosses as a Centennial Project…. I think that is correct…