What Only The Biggest Fans Know About Hallmark's When Calls The Heart

For fans who attended the Hope Valley Days fan event, the highlight was paying a visit to the set of the show to see the actual Hope Valley up close. As it turned out, one doesn't have to attend the convention to visit the set, with tours of the "When Calls the Heart" set available during other times of the year.  

The set, reported the Langley Advance Times, has been dubbed Jamestown. The newspaper cautioned visitors to wear sensible shoes when dropping by, noting that "visitors to the Langley set of the television series 'When Calls the Heart' must watch their step or risk finding themselves ankle-deep in a pool of muck."

Unlike some film or TV sets, the buildings that were constructed for Jamestown are all practical, meaning they're not just facades of buildings with nothing inside, but are actual structures with rooms, etc., which allows scenes to be filmed inside these buildings without the necessity of using a studio facility. "Far from just facades, inside each structure is a fully dressed set — whether it's an office with a working fireplace, a hotel/saloon that doubles as a schoolhouse, or the local mercantile, where plank shelves are crowded with everything that would have been needed to run a household 100 years ago," noted the Advance Times.