Wind at My Back

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Wind at My Back is a television series which aired in Canada on CBC Television between 1996 and 2001. It was produced by Kevin Sullivan, best known for his timeless adaptation of Anne of Green Gables. The series had five seasons, each with 13 episodes, and a Christmas-themed movie produced to wrap up loose ends, following the unexpected cancellation of the series.

The series is set during the Great Depression of the 1930s, in the fictional small mining town of New Bedford in Northern Ontario. The family drama followed the members of the Bailey family as they lived through a time marked by hardship.

In the first episode, Jack and Honey Bailey loses their hardware store and are forced to move back to Jack's hometown in Northern Ontario, where his family owns a Silver Mine. When Jack is killed in an accident, Honey is forced to leave her children with her domineering mother-in-law while she searches for work.

The show was filmed in the town of Bowmanville, Ontario, one hour east of Toronto. It was filmed in the Bowmanville Museum and also in the Tyrone Mills also near Bowmanville.

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Honey Bailey (played by Cynthia Belliveau, Seasons 1-3, and Laura Bruneau, Seasons 4-5) - When the show begins, Honey is married to Jack Bailey. When Jack dies in an accident, she is forced to leave her two sons and young daughter with her mother-in-law to look for work.
May Bailey (played by Shirley Douglas) - May is Honey's domineering mother-in-law, who resents Honey for taking her son away from the family mining business. She separates Honey from her children after Jack's death.
Grace Bailey (played by Kathryn Greenwood) - Grace is Honey's unmarried sister-in-law who lives under the same roof with her domineering mother.
Hubert "Hub" Bailey (played by Dylan Provencher) - Hubert is Honey's eldest son.
Henry "Fat" Bailey (played by Tyrone Savage) - Henry is Honey's younger son.
Max Sutton (played by James Carroll) - Max is a local school teacher in New Bedford who takes a liking to Honey.
Toppy Bailey (played by Robin Craig) - Toppy is May's other daughter-in-law. When the show begins, she is snobbish and cold to Honey. Toppy recurs in the first three seasons and becomes a regular cast member in Season 4-5.