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Andrew MacLean’s popular long form Atlantic Canadian history column, Backyard History, appears once a week in more than a dozen newspapers and is read widely across the Maritimes.

He is also the host of the Backyard History Podcast, and has a television show in the works with Cultivation Productions and Bell Fibe.

He puts the story into history, digging deep into forgotten and obscure moments in Maritimes history and fashioning them into fascinating tales.

Mixing academic research with the hum…

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Backyard History: Princess Louise, N.B.'s beloved war horse

Backyard History: Princess Louise, N.B.'s beloved war horse

When a little horse's mother was killed on Italy's Gothic Line, Canadian soldiers brought it to safety, then …

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BACKYARD HISTORY: The ghost ship of the Baie des Chaleurs

BACKYARD HISTORY: The ghost ship of the Baie des Chaleurs

How N.B. most famous naturalist solved one of the province's most famous ghost stories - or did he?

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BACKYARD HISTORY: The ghost ship of the Baie des Chaleurs

BACKYARD HISTORY: The ghost ship of the Baie des Chaleurs

How N.B. most famous naturalist solved one of the province's most famous ghost stories - or did he?

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BACKYARD HISTORY: The ghost ship of the Baie des Chaleurs

BACKYARD HISTORY: The ghost ship of the Baie des Chaleurs

How N.B. most famous naturalist solved one of the province's most famous ghost stories - or did he?

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Backyard History: Our quirky ride to modern roads

Backyard History: Our quirky ride to modern roads

The motor car was a welcome new invention, but the New Brunswick government had little initial interest in ma…

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Backyard History: The sunken treasure ship in the Bay of Fundy

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By Andrew MacLean, Andrew Maclean, Backyard History
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Skip to Content Deep in the cold waters, dead soldiers’ pay lies waiting to be found Author of the article: •  Backyard History •   • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. There is more than lobster to be found in the waters beyond Dipper Harbour, where this curious 1960 tourism promo was shot. A century and a half earlier, a warship laden with gold meant to pay soldiers wrecked here - scattering a fortune across the floor of the Bay of Fundy.
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Backyard History: The lost provincial anthem

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By Andrew MacLean, Andrew Maclean, Backyard History
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Skip to Content Two young women went on a road trip looking for music and found an anthem Author of the article: •  Backyard History •   • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Helen Creighton travelled all over Nova Scotia, discovering and recording forgotten traditional songs. She recorded them with this oversized instrument called a melodeon, which she carted around in a wheelbarrow.
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Backyard History: The hero in sailor’s garb

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By Andrew MacLean, Andrew Maclean, Backyard History
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The secret life of a sailor who died saving others in a catastrophic 1873 shipwreck Author of the article: •  Backyard History •   • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Nova Scotians attend the makeshift funeral for victims of the SS Atlantic catastrophe. Among the dead buried in this mass grave was a sailor known only as Bill, who had died trying to save others.
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