Upon seeing Bowmanville and getting to know the area, Kevin said that it felt right, especially considering how accommodating the town was to their filming requirements.  “It’s an unusual mixture of elements when a town doesn’t mind you coming in and shooting,” Kevin says.  And the production team was able to dress it up so that it really looked like the 1930s, he adds.

Some of the buildings in Bowmanville also played a huge role in the production of the series.  The famous home of May Bailey is actually the Bowmanville Museum, which the Sullivan team used for exterior shots.  The house was built in 1847 as a one-story Regency Style cottage and then was changed in both the 1860’s and 1880’s to become the two-story building in the Italianate style that viewers see in the show.

In the second season of the series, it was decided that driving the distance between the Sullivan studio and Bowmanville was actually eating up time that could be used for filming.  So, the town of New Bedford was rebuilt in the Sullivan studio and has been used for several other productions, including Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story, Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, Sleeping Dogs Lie and even poses as Salzburg in Mozart’s Magic Flute Diaries.

Keep checking back for future blogs about the casting of the series and other filming location information!

Sources: 
Beyond Green Gables
http://www.claringtonmuseums.com/bowmanville.html