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You're cruising down a New Brunswick road, windows down, thinking about lunch, when suddenly — there it is. A giant concrete potato, rising out…
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…
In 1949, a little Canadian island off of the coast of Nova Scotia declared itself to be its own country. Calling itself The Principality…
We’re always taught in school that ever since European colonists arrived in what is now Canada, that it was always a colony of either…
The Saint John Lunatic Asylum where Mary Huestis Pengilly stayed in 1883. While there she kept a secret diary and recorded what it was…
In 1906 two young children disappeared from their front lawns in the tiny village of Cape Tormentine. A reporter comes in from the big…
Listen to this story on the Backyard History Podcast! Produced by Jordan Lauzier. On Fredericton’s Waterloo Row stands a sombre grey Victorian mansion called…
For several years Saint John’s iconic Rockwood Park was turned into a summer fair grounds based on Coney Island, featuring rides, nightly fireworks, bars…
The Lake Utopia Medallion, now found in the New Brunswick Museum N597 In 1863, a recent Scottish immigrant was wandering through the stark and…
This 1893 photograph is of a reconstructed caravel, one of the two ships that carried settlers overseas to the lost colony which, if the…
A postcard depicting the Bay of Fundy, looking at Wolfe Point. Provincial Archives of New Brunswick P46\912 What does “Fundy” mean? Where does the…
Photgraph taken by Mark Pulsifier during his wildlife research on Isle Haute in the 1980s. In the middle of the Bay of Fundy, between…