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1996 • Drama, Family

Rating: 9 / 10

Status: Ended

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 65

Original Language: English

Network: CBC Television

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A recently widowed mother loses her children to a cold mother-in-law in Ontario during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Based loosely on the books "Never Sleep Three in a Bed" and "The Night We Stole the Mounties’ Car" by Max Braithwaite

Seasons & Episodes

Season 0

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 1 Episodes

1 - Four Walls and a Roof (1) (Sun, Dec 1, 1996)
2 - Four Walls and a Roof (2) (Sun, Dec 1, 1996)
3 - No Way of Telling (Sun, Dec 8, 1996)
4 - A Family of Independent Means (Sun, Dec 15, 1996)
5 - My Dog Pal (Sun, Dec 22, 1996)
6 - Something From Nothing (Sun, Jan 5, 1997)
7 - Moonshine Struck (Sun, Jan 12, 1997)
8 - Train To Nowhere (Sun, Jan 19, 1997)
9 - Aunt Grace's Wedding (Sun, Jan 26, 1997)
10 - No Place Like Home (Sun, Feb 2, 1997)
11 - Chasing Rainbows (Sun, Feb 9, 1997)
12 - Moving Mountains (Sun, Feb 16, 1997)
13 - Back In My Arms Again (Sun, Feb 23, 1997)

Season 2 Episodes

1 - Many Happy Returns (Sun, Sep 28, 1997)
2 - Never Sleep Three In A Bed (Sun, Oct 5, 1997)
3 - The Agony Column (Sun, Oct 12, 1997)
4 - Triple Trouble (Sun, Oct 19, 1997)
5 - Summer Dreams, Summer Nightmares (Sun, Oct 26, 1997)
6 - The Champ (Sun, Nov 2, 1997)
7 - By Gosh Or By Golly (Sun, Nov 9, 1997)
8 - Careers (Sun, Nov 23, 1997)
9 - Radio Waves (Sun, Nov 30, 1997)
10 - A Ghost of a Chance (Sun, Dec 7, 1997)
11 - A Meeting of the Clan (Sun, Dec 14, 1997)
12 - Of All That Human Hearts Endure (Sun, Dec 21, 1997)
13 - Smiling Through (Sun, Dec 21, 1997)

Season 3 Episodes

1 - The Resurrection of May (Sun, Jan 24, 1999)
2 - The Long Weekend (Sun, Jan 31, 1999)
3 - The Forever Leap (Sun, Apr 11, 1999)
4 - My Beautiful Mom (Sun, Feb 7, 1999)
5 - The Fever (Sun, Mar 14, 1999)
6 - The Crystal Skull (Sun, Feb 21, 1999)
7 - Public Enemies (Sun, Mar 7, 1999)
8 - New Directions (Sun, Mar 21, 1999)
9 - The Strap (Sun, Mar 28, 1999)
10 - Grace of Hollywood (Sun, Jan 17, 1999)
11 - Marathon (Sun, Apr 4, 1999)
12 - A Mission For Honey (Sun, Apr 18, 1999)
13 - Life On Mars (Sun, Apr 18, 1999)

Season 4 Episodes

1 - All This And Heaven Too (Sun, Jan 16, 2000)
2 - It Don't Mean A Thing (Sun, Jan 30, 2000)
3 - A Girl In Trouble (Sun, Feb 6, 2000)
4 - A River Rages (Sun, Feb 13, 2000)
5 - After Leo (Sun, Feb 27, 2000)
6 - Faith Healer (Sun, Mar 5, 2000)
7 - Remembrance Day (Sun, Mar 12, 2000)
8 - The Shadow Boxer (Sun, Mar 19, 2000)
9 - Murmur Most Foul (Sun, Mar 26, 2000)
10 - The Wild Blue Yonder (Sun, Apr 2, 2000)
11 - A Family Again (Sun, Oct 15, 2000)
12 - A Formal Affair (Sun, Oct 22, 2000)
13 - The Foolish Heart (Sun, Oct 29, 2000)

Season 5 Episodes

1 - Coming of Age (Sun, Nov 5, 2000)
2 - Oh Happy Day (Sun, Nov 12, 2000)
3 - The Trick Cyclist (Sun, Dec 3, 2000)
4 - New Girls In Town (Sun, Dec 10, 2000)
5 - The Spanish Prisoner (Sun, Jan 7, 2001)
6 - Marriage of True Minds (Sun, Jan 14, 2001)
7 - For God and Country (Sun, Jan 21, 2001)
8 - Enter Eddie Jackson (Sun, Jan 28, 2001)
9 - The Summer Plague (Sun, Feb 4, 2001)
10 - Reconciliation (Sun, Feb 11, 2001)
11 - Crack In The Mirror (Sun, Feb 18, 2001)
12 - Secrets and Lies (Sun, Apr 1, 2001)
13 - Pay Back (Sun, Apr 1, 2001)
14 - A Wind at My Back Christmas Part 1 (Sun, Dec 23, 2001)
15 - A Wind at My Back Christmas Part 2 (Sun, Dec 23, 2001)

Main Cast

Shirley Douglas

()

Tyrone Savage

()

Daniel Pilon

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Cynthia Belliveau

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Craig Eldridge

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Charmion King

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Carl Marotte

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Dylan Provencher

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Robin Craig

(Toppy Bailey)

Ron Lea

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Ken James

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Kathryn Greenwood

(Grace Bailey)

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