Canadian Show, “When Calls the Heart” Comes to CBC

TORONTO — It’s hard to find a show more Canadian than “When Calls the Heart.”

The period drama is based on Janette Oke’s bestselling Canadian book series, is set in a small Prairie town, and centres on a young school teacher struggling to adapt to life in the rural West. Then there’s the handsome Mountie who catches her eye.

The B.C.-shot show debuts this Sunday on the most of Canadian of networks, CBC-TV, more than a year after launching on the Hallmark Channel in the United States and on the pay-TV network Super Channel here.

“It’s a Canadian show on an American network, now on a Canadian network, which is probably where it belongs,” star Daniel Lissing chuckles during a recent media event.

The Australian-born Lissing plays the dashing Jack Thornton while Philadelphia-born actress Erin Krakow stars as Elizabeth Thatcher.

Set in 1910, their romance unfolds . . .