Coronation Street - Canadian Connection

CORONATION STREET is the longest running TV drama in Canada!  It's been on Canadian television for nearly 40 years.  Entire families  - as well as members of the Canadian Navy ! - regularly watch the show together.

 

Every year Coronation Street is celebrated at the British Isles Show in Toronto!   During the 3 day celebration thousands of Canadians line up (for up to 5 hours) just to get a few moments with the cast members!  And every year hundreds of Canadians visit Manchester to see and walk down the streets where the show is filmed!

Canada is part of the British Comonwealth but is there more to this connection?

Shania Twain - 2003 Canadian Country Music Awards

2003 Album of the Year

Up! (Shania Twain)

2003 All Star Band - Fiddle

Cory Churko (Shania Twain)

2003 CMT Video of the Year

I'm Gonna Getcha Good (Shania Twain)

2003 Female Artist of the Year

Shania Twain

2003 Top Selling Album of the Year

Up! (Shania Twain)

CBC - Home Fires (Series) (1980-1983)

Home Fires was a dramatic CBC series about a Toronto family during the first two years of World War II.  The show ran from 1980-1983.  Back then there weren't many Canadian TV shows or movies and those that did make it to air were seldom critically acclaimed to put it mildly.  

Home Fires was different.  It was special.  Perhaps I was intrigued with the show, in part because it was centred in Toronto and dealt with real-life issues facing families during the war, but no doubt it was also due to the cast and production.  

Home Fires introduced me to the talented Canadian actress Wendy Crewson (who played the daughter Terry).  I often mentioned the show to friends and family for years afterward.

Many times I've wished CBC would show it again... I'd like to see it in a new unit of time.

 Home Fires Cast - Lowe Family:

Gerard Parkes (as Dr. Albert Lowe in the new CBC series Home Fires)
Kim Yaroshevskaya (as Hannah Lowe),
Wendy Crewson (their daughter Terry),
Peter Spence (son Sydney) and
Sheila Moore (Lowe's nurse, Marge Brower)

(Wendy Crewson also played Kate Armstrong, one of the four War Brides on CBC)

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