In 1989, New Brunswick became a new front in the international drug wars when an RCMP sting resulted in a crashed plane smuggling cocaine and a squad of Colombian hit men descending on the province.
Remote Miscou Island received shocking visitors and drew international media attention when a cutting-edge Soviet bomber en route to the 1939 World's Fair in New York made an emergency landing on it's boggy shores.
In the 1920's, an unlikely homegrown rum running gang led by a boss named Joe Walnut grew to vast wealth and influence during the height of prohibition on the border lands of Canada and the USA.
A female adventurer and storyteller from rural Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada, found fame and fortune in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush.