Backyard History

FORGOTTEN STORIES FROM ATLANTIC CANADA'S PAST

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These ladies are rum runners, smuggling booze over the border with Joe Walnut's Madawaska Mob.

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Backyard History is a popular newspaper column, podcast, and books written by Andrew MacLean, telling forgotten stories of Atlantic Canada's past.

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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