Happy Canada Day! Bonne fête du Canada!
Here’s a list of all the period dramas / historical dramas that are set in Canada or told from a Canadian perspective (titles listed alphabetically).
- 15 février (February) 1839 (2001)
- CBC’s Alias Grace (2017)
- CBC’s Anne (2017)
- Anne of Green Gables (1985)
- Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel / Anne of Avonlea (1987)
- Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000)
- Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008)
- L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (2016)
- A Bear Named Winnie (2004)
- The Black Robe (1991)
- La Bolduc (2018)
- Bomb Girls (2012-2013)
- Bomb Girls – Facing The Enemy (2014)
- The Book of Negroes (2015)
- The Boy in Blue (1986)
- Butterbox Babies (1995)
- Chasing Rainbows (1988)
- Chateau Laurier (2017) – web series
- Emily of New Moon (1998-2000)
- CBC’s The Frankie Drake Mysteries (2017-Present)
- Frontier (2017)
- Gold (2013)
- Gunless (2010)
- Maudie (2016)
- Million Dollar Babies (1994)
- Murdoch Mysteries (2004)
- CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries (2008-Present)
- Passchendaele (2008)
- The Pathfinder (1996)
- Promise the Moon (1997)
- Quand je serai parti… vous vivrez encore / The Long Winter (1999)
- Quebec (1951)
- The Red Violin (1998) *Historical parts set in Europe and China; modern-day set in Montreal*
- Road to Avonlea (1990-6)
- Sleeping Dogs Lie (1998)
- CBC’s Strange Empire (2015)
- Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
- The Vancouver Asahi (2014)
- When Calls the Heart (2013 – TV movie) *fictional town
- When Calls the Heart (2014 – TV series) *fictional town
- CBC’s The Whiteoaks of Jalna (1972)
- Wind at My Back (1996-2001)
- CBC’s X Company S1-3 (2015-2017)
Have I missed any?
“Chasing Rainbows” CBC 1988, Paul Gross
Thank you, Lawrence!