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It was also a full-circle moment for Fortune, an executive producer on the series, to see Barry’s Bay brought to life. Though the author was born in Toronto, she spent a majority of her childhood in the Ontario lake town.

“The first day I went to set and seeing Barry’s Bay, their Barry’s Bay, was a pretty big deal for me, because I grew up in Barry’s Bay,” Fortune said. “It’s a setting of the book, seeing Steadmans, which is a real store of Barry’s Bay, there on set. The Tavern — that was very, very special.”

Another special on-set memory? Getting to make a cameo in the show itself.

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