🦞 Forgotten Stories From Atlantic Canada’s Past 🦞
From the popular column in 20+ newspapers, Backyard History combines The Maritimes' classic storytelling traditions with meticulous archival research and features more than a dozen voice actors to immerse you in the rich past of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland. Produced by Jordan Lauzier.
📕 Buy the FOUR Backyard History books at backyardhistory.ca (http://backyardhistory.ca/books)
It all began on a dark and stormy night. Three reporters went off chasing a strange lead about cars rolling uphill, leading to the discovery of what eventually became Magnetic Hill, the famous landmark in Moncton, New Brunswick.
This story and many others appers in the fourth Backyard History book 'Mysterious Stories From Atlantic Canada's Past,' get a signed. copy at backyardhistory.ca/books
2 Aug 2026
Dobbin the Diver and the Murderous Mystery of the Shipwreck Monasco
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, didn't quite add up...
CONTENT WARNING: Dobbin The Diver's description of what he saw when he dove down to the shipwreck is very ... vivid. Parents might be risking nightmares by playing this episode for young kids!
This story appears in the book 'Backyard History: Forgotten Stories From Atlantic Canada's Past Volume Two.' Get it at backyardhistory.ca
5 Jun 2026
Howl in the Maritimes: The Easter Allen Ginsberg Shook a City
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 in a Saint John church was, shall we say ... mixed!
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