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  • Comedy on the Rocks: When Comedians Stuck at Sea Turned Disaster into Drama
    May 19 2025

    Little Pictou Island, Nova Scotia, gets its first ever play in the most unusual of circumstances ... after a winter ferry from PEI gets stuck in the ice and drifts over to the island!

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    10 min
  • "Only Men May Vote!" (LIVE!) A Tale of Fredericton Women's Lost and Found Voting Rights
    Mar 8 2025

    A special LIVE podcast of "Only Men May Vote!" starring special guests Fredericton Mayor Kate Rogers, Green Party Leader and MLA David Coon, Poet Laureate Fawn Parker, Minister of Opportunities New Brunswick Luke Randall and City Councillor Cassandra LeBlanc!

    Recorded in front of a crowd of a hundred people at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre in Fredericton on March 7th, 2025.

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    1 h et 12 min
  • The Lost Diary: Journey of a Writer Who Vanished into the Heart of the Forest
    Feb 25 2025

    A mysterious Englishman sailed to New Brunswick in the 1850s. His name and his fate are unknown. All that remains of him is his diary, which recounts an incredible adventure.

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    52 min
  • Breakfast with the Dungarvon Whooper
    Jan 21 2025

    A long-lost interview in the forest sheds light on the man behind the Maritimes most famous so-called ghost...

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    19 min
  • The Quarantine Journal of Nellie McGowan
    Jan 4 2025

    A young girl keeps a secret diary to solve a mystery as she is growing up on an island where new immigrants to Canada are quarantined.

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    18 min
  • A Halifax Christmas Murder
    Dec 25 2024

    A dark murder mystery on Christmas in the old garrison city of Halifax changed the Maritimes.

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    19 min
  • The Story Behind the Crosses on Sugarloaf Mountain
    Dec 14 2024

    100 years ago, a tragedy led to two crosses being painted on Sugarloaf in Campbellton. This is the story of what happened.

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    12 min
  • The Ghost of Binstead Manor
    Oct 24 2024

    A Victorian aristocrat moves to PEI and encounters a ghost in her new house: the biggest mansion on the Island called Binstead Manor. She decided to investigate the haunting herself...

    This story appears in the new book 'Backyard History: Rebellious Women In The Maritimes'! Order your copy at backyardhistory.ca

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    29 min