A fight between soldiers and sailors sparks an all-out riot in downtown Halifax. A corrupt captain agrees to take a shipload of convicts from New Brunswick to Bermuda—and sells them to the highest bidders along the way. And in a small PEI town besieged by crime, the residents take justice into their own hands.Rogues and Rascals is an anecdotal history of the Maritime provinces, with a particular eye to the odd, the interesting, and the obscure. In these pages, you’ll meet the misfits and maligners, treasure hunters and highway robbers, who traversed the Maritimes from the 1700s to the mid 1900s. Five thematic sections collect 200 short tales of con men and hangmen, murderers and soul savers, heroes and failures, superstitions and miracles and even a ghost or two.
