
The Plane That Crashed Into a Kitchen
Early in the night of June 23rd, 1941, the Seeley family in Havelock, New Brunswick, were awoken by a bang. Charles Seeley leapt out…

Early in the night of June 23rd, 1941, the Seeley family in Havelock, New Brunswick, were awoken by a bang. Charles Seeley leapt out…

For decades, Acadian singers would open a long, mournful ballad with those words in the song called “Le Meurtre de Timothy McCarthy,” which means…

The darkness goes deep in Albert County’s gypsum caves. In 1937, a reporter from the Telegraph-Journal descended into one on a tip from two…

A ridiculously wealthy and extremely eccentric dentist built a mansion in Hampton, New Brunswick. The ghost said to be guarding a hidden treasure on…

When 22-year-old Louisa Journeaux stepped into a rowboat one quiet Sunday evening, she couldn’t have imagined that the whole world would hear about it.…

A photograph of the first train to arrive in St. Stephen, in 1867. Ten years earlier, the first train in New Brunswick had its…

One hundred and twenty nine years ago, New Brunswick suffered what was initially called a “terrible catastrophe” and its worst ever train wreck, leaving…

Magnetic Hill has been a New Brunswick icon since the 1930s and grew into a full attraction with a gift shop, zoo, water park,…

A bizarre treasure hunt that was later nicknamed "New Brunswick's own Oak Island" kicked off when a cow fell down a mysterious structure on…

A photo of the "Mystery Crater" in its heyday. (Provincial Archives of New Brunswick) New Brunswick was once home to a quirky popular tourist…

Janet Webster gave her life in the French Resistance. This summer, her granddaughter, Sophie Roche (right) returned to New Brunswick to rediscover the family’s…

Headlines from 1892 announcing that, after 220 years, Moncton had its first ever murder. It started with a North Shore break-in. Then another. Then…

The stars of the 1951 Shediac Lobster Festival. From left to right: Leah Cormier, Betty Amireault, Florine Borque (the Lobster Queen), Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard,…

The cover of the first ever edition of The Mysterious East — a rebellious 1960s counterculture magazine published out of a Fredericton apartment. With…

You're cruising down a New Brunswick road, windows down, thinking about lunch, when suddenly — there it is. A giant concrete potato, rising out…

Tom Picot watched idly as an ominous, large, dark spot passed under the tiny fishing boat he and his father were aboard near Bell…

As Europe teetered on the brink of war in the Summer of 1939, two Moncton schoolteachers went on a carefree two-month-long vacation across that…

Celebrated folklorist Helen Creighton (seated far left, with her high-tech portable recorder) spent her life documenting Nova Scotian songs. In the early 1950s, she…

Newfoundlander Bob Bartlett (right) and famous explorer Robert Peary (left) were a dynamic duo of Arctic exploration who faced triumph and controversy in their…

This is an abbreviated part of the centrepiece story of my new book, Rebellious Women In The Maritimes. Order your copy of the book…

The word “ghost ship” might conjure spectral images of the Victorian era, but a Nova Scotian ghost ship named the Governor Parr was distinctly…

On October 11th, 1908, in an unassuming upstairs on Main Street in Moncton, 20 men — ten of whom were New Brunswickers — met…

New Brunswick experienced some growing pains as more people began driving cars, including some remarkable struggles adapting to one particular new technology: the traffic…

While Shediac, NB, briefly captivated the world's attention as a port for gigantic flying boats, dreams of becoming a port for regular transatlantic flights…