Based on the hit newspaper column, podcast and books, Backyard History unearths the often hilarious, mostly mysterious, always surprising untold tales of Canada’s East Coast, as only a Maritimer can spin them.

Backyard History is a historical factual series detailing the rich, undiscovered past of Canada’s Maritime provinces, a region renowned for its storytelling. The first season focuses on New Brunswick.

Each story is expertly researched and told via period archival footage, newspaper articles, photographs, journal entries, along with animation and public domain sources combined with narration to depict the prevailing events, mood and culture of the time.

Spinning compelling yarns with the human touch Maritimers are known for, Backyard History takes viewers on an entertaining and exhilarating ride through long forgotten historic events, connecting with and reflecting broader Canadian and world history in unexpected ways.

EPISODES

Cocaine Plane
In 1989, New Brunswick became a new front in the international drug wars when an RCMP sting resulted in a crashed plane smuggling cocaine and a squad of Colombian hitman descending on the province.

The Fundy Sub Spy
During the height of World War II, the dark depths of the Bay of Fundy, known for the highest tides in the world, proved a ripe target for Nazi espionage. One German spy deployed onto its rocky shoreline went on to live secretly in Canada throughout much of the war.

Moscow to Miscou
Remote Miscou Island received shocking visitors and drew international media attention when a cutting-edge Soviet bomber en route to the 1939 World’s Fair in New York made an emergency landing on it’s boggy shores.

Joe Walnut & The Madawaska Mob
In the 1920’s, an unlikely homegrown rum running gang led by a boss named Joe Walnut grew to vast wealth and influence during the height of prohibition on the border lands of Canada and the USA.

Klondike Kate
A female adventurer and storyteller from rural Carleton County, New Brunswick, found fame and fortune in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush.