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- Doctor James Campbell, a widower, moves to Upper Canada with his three children. Taking place during the 1830s, the family and their community deal with both adventure and misfortune.
- Emma Campbell tries to transform the blacksmith, Pat Harmon, into a gentleman to impress his mail-order bride who is due to arrive in a few weeks.
- Dr. Campbell is offered a position at a hospital in Toronto. Emma and John sadly make preparations to leave the farm. Captain Sims is visited by his sister who is very critical of his household. She announces she wants to move nearby.
- Neil and Larry hope to get jobs with the railroad and travel to Baltimore, but Neil starts to lose interest in travel when he falls for a young woman staying at the Campbells'. The Sims contentiously celebrate their 5th anniversary.
- Brother and sister ornithologists come to catch specimens and to sell subscriptions to their manuscript, "Birds of the Canadas". A competitor, an agent for Audubon, steals their owl. The owl escapes and takes refuge in Emma's barn.
- Neil Campbell is smitten by Rebecca Sims' cousin Amanda who comes to spend the autumn with the Sims. Rebecca believes Amanda returns his feelings and is quite jealous, but actually Amanda's feelings are for someone else.
- Dr. Campbell and Emma take in a Gypsy girl who has been exposed to cholera, causing alarm in the community.
- Pat Harmon, the blacksmith, is kidnapped by the wife of an escaped convict to remove her husband's shackles. While tracking the convict, Neil Campbell runs into Will Forrester and enlists his help. Pat starts to bond with his kidnappers.
- When Cleghorne raises his price to cart produce to York, Capt. Sims and Neil build a raft to go down the Grand River to Lake Erie to connect to a barge to New York. Their trip is plagued with setbacks and several Iroquois are watching them.
- Emma grows attached to a gray horse with a black star on her forehead which was given to her father as payment from a patient. Meanwhile an unpleasant stranger is looking for a horse of a similar description who he says was stolen from him.
- Joshua Powell and son Nathaniel stop at Logan's Inn on their travels. Joshua impresses the crowd with tales of his great uncle, Daniel Boone. When area farms are raided by strange Indians he is asked to use his tracking skills to find them.
- Neil visits and finds his father has injured his back, so he stays to help with the farm. Neil and John are disturbed by the disappearance of a father and son who planned to start a Utopian community and try to solve the mystery.
- Neil has been deputized by Constable Payne to witness serving routine summons. While out they see the York coach robbed by the ruthless outlaw Sam Carver. Carver and his men kidnap Harriet Sims. Neil and Constable Payne must rescue her.
- Captain Sims and Dr. Campbell go on a hunting trip to stock up on venison for the winter, but they are captured by a man and his severely injured companion who have deserted the Royal Navy after being impressed into service.
- Captain Sims' pretentious nephew Kevin comes to visit. Sims' horse Hector dies from a mysterious illness. A strange young woman wearing a dark, hooded cloak is hiding in a deserted old cabin in the woods. The farmers fear she is a witch.
- Neil pays a visit to buy horses from Sims. Dr. Campbell's bargaining offends Sims who raises his price. They travel to a stable at Maryhill but find it closed. They buy horses from a scam artist and are chased by the horses' real owners.
- Dr. Campbell rescues Molly, a trapper who is being accosted by two men. They instantly dislike each other, but Emma thinks that means they belong together like Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, and tries to throw them together.
- Sims runs as a Tory for the House of Assembly, in part so he can name their community 'Simsville'. Dan Bright, an apple grower from Connecticut, wants to run as a Reformer but cannot due to a technicality; so Dr. Campbell takes his place.
- After an attack on an army outpost by "yankee renegades", Captain Sims fears a U.S. invasion and decides to form a company of volunteer riflemen with young men from the neighboring farms.
- The Campbells befriend an old traveling fiddler named Fergie and are concerned about his health.
- Will Forrester is hurt when he is trampled by a horse while helping the Campbells clear some land. Emma is frustrated by the division of "women's work" and "men's work" on the farm and would like to help her father tend to patients.
- Captain Sims invites Sir Reginald, an elderly British fencing champion, to give an exhibition. John is bullied by an older boy, Ned. Captain Sims offers to give John some fencing tips so he can teach Ned a lesson, but Dr. Campbell objects.
- Insurrection is in the air in 1830's Scotland with both Neil and Dr. Campbell's Uncle Andrew involved. The life of Duncan Sinclair is saved by chloroform, something new tried by the doctor but viewed with suspicion.
- The Campbells arrive in Canada and enjoy dinner at Logan's Inn with innkeeper, Gabrielle Leger, who warns them that their neighbor, Captain Sims, wants their property. Someone is playing dangerous tricks with near fatal consequences.
- Dr. Campbell misses the boat to Scotland when he is ordered to care for Lady Helen who has passed out at the docks. Since the next boat does not leave for weeks, he waits at her estate where she hides a Highlander from the authorities.
- The son of one of Captain Sims' war comrades comes from England to court Rebecca Sims. The lieutenant's fancy uniform and genteel manners mask some serious character flaws.
- Dr. Campbell is taken by the Chippewa. He performs a tracheotomy to save a boy's life and is rewarded with the sister as his bride. This angers a Chippewa who loves her. A trader who acts as their interpreter also wants the sister.
- While hunting, Neil befriends a woodsman who says he will teach Neil to hunt. When he is injured, Neil brings him to the family cabin for medical treatment. When Dr. Campbell discovers he is wanted for murder, he takes the family hostage.
- Dr. Campbell treats Lady Caroline, an English noblewoman who sprains her ankle while fleeing the man she arranged to marry through transatlantic correspondence.
- The Campbells and Capt. Sims want to protect Maddie Todd, a woman from Ohio on the run from a vengeful family who hold her responsible for the death of their brother.
- Dr. Campbell unwittingly helps two trappers who have robbed and murdered 2 Iroquois.
- Dr. Campbell and Captain Sims are concerned that a neighbor's cattle have a highly contagious deadly disease called "murrain" that will spread to the other cows in the community.
- Rebecca Sims helps an escaped slave from Virginia who is being pursued by a slave chaser.
- The Campbells are required to clear half an acre of their land in less than a week or lose their property. Captain Sims is the Tory candidate for their district election.
- As winter approaches, Dr. Campbell experiences financial difficulties when all his patients pay him with pumpkins instead of cash. He considers selling the farm and moving the family to York to practice medicine in the city.
- Dr. Campbell and Emma help a preacher's wife who goes into labor after a carriage accident.
- Dr. Campbell receives a pig as payment for his services. The pig keeps escaping from her pen so Captain Sims tries to claim her when she wanders into his barn.
- Neil signs up for a boxing tournament.
- Emma and John play pranks to scare away Mary McTavish, their superstitious housekeeper who believes in ghosts and is critical of Emma's homemaking skills. They convince neighbor Richard Sims to impersonate a late-night ghostly visitor.
- Dr. Campbell treats a dying man who sailed with the pirate Jean Lafitte. He gives Dr. Campbell a model ship. Meanwhile the patient's housekeeper and her ex-convict brother are searching for his treasure.
- While John and Emma are playing by a stream in the woods, Emma appears to be stabbed and carried off by an Iroquois woman. Dr. Campbell, John and Neil, with the help of Gabrielle Leger, investigate.
- Rebecca Sims' friend Bridget Carmody visits to prepare for her wedding. James and Neil Campbell find a skeleton on their property.
- Rebecca and Harriet Sims come to stay with the Campbells, when Captain Sims is challenged to a duel by a mysterious stranger.
- Dr. Campbell finds an exhausted traveler who collapses on horseback clutching a gold nugget. Captain Sims, Neil Campbell and neighbor, Charles Burnett, believe they can strike it rich by investing in his enterprise.
- Dr. Campbell returns to Scotland when he hears that his father-in-law has died. He is worried about his mother-in-law's health. He also tries to help Andrew, his brother-in-law, who is in trouble for protesting the Highland Clearances.
- John is confronted by a growling dog in the woods who turns friendly when offered food. John brings him home, but the farmers think the dog has been killing their sheep. Hunting the sheep-killer results in a dreadful accident.
- Mary McTavish's feelings for a former love are rekindled when he returns after a ten-year absence. Constable Jack Ames returns to Logan's Inn. He is looking for two army deserters who robbed a stagecoach.
- Neighboring farmer Robert Whitaker suffers a catastrophic injury during a barn-raising and does not believe his sickly son, Alf, can run the farm alone. Alf, Neil and Dr. Campbell try to show him he's wrong.
- An old friend of Dr. Campbell sends his snobbish son from England to set up as a farmer, but Clarence Wellington-Smythe is more interested in astronomy than farming. The neighboring Iroquois are suffering due to crop failures.
- John Campbell finds Arthur Morrison, a runaway who has been indentured to a farmer, and brings him home. Dr. Campbell, worried about the boy's malnourishment, does not want to return him.