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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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Backyard History unearths the often hilarious, mostly mysterious, always surprising untold tales of Canada’s East Coast, as only a Maritimer can spin them.

    Painless Parker: Renegade Dentist

    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

    • 28 min
    The Rise and Fall of George Black and the Golden Seven

    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!

    • 27 min
    The Detective and the Trapper

    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/book

    • 13 min
    Denied a Seat: Wolastoqiyik Man Races Stagecoach 100 kilometers

    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

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

    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

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

    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

    • 24 min

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