Vancouver

THERE’S A REASON VANCOUVER IS CALLED Hollywood North. This British Columbia gem is home to the fourth-largest film and television production industry in North America, behind Los Angeles, New York, and Toronto. It’s also the home away from home of Erin Krakow where she has been filming the hit Hallmark western television series When Calls the Heart, along with several other high-profile Hallmark films over the last five years.

In the popular family drama inspired by the Janette Oke book of the same name and developed forTV by producer Michael Landon Jr., Krakow stars as teacher Elizabeth Thatcher, a wealthy East Coast transplant who moves to the fictional frontier town of Hope Valley in the Canadian Rockies during the early 1900s. As she takes