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Welcome to the Hearties!
Welcome to the website for the Hearties, devoted fans of the Hallmark Channel original series When Calls The Heart and When Hope Calls, both inspired by the Canadian West book series from Janette Oke, and created by Michael Landon, Jr. and Brian Bird.
When Calls the Heart
When Calls the Heart is uplifting period drama set against the backdrop of a coal mining town in 1910, When Calls The Heart stars Erin Krakow (Elizabeth Thatcher), Pascale Hutton (Rosemary Coulter), Kavan Smith (Leland Coulter), Jack Wagner (Bill Avery), Chris McNally (Lucas Bouchard), Kevin McGarry (Nathan Grant), and a stellar supporting cast. Blending the elements of romance, adventure, and family values strangely absent from modern television programs, When Calls The Heart weaves a powerful story of hardship, faith, and love. Learn more about the series.
When Calls the Heart – The Official Home of the Hearties Group (Facebook)
When Calls the Heart – The Official Home of the Hearties (Instagram)
When Calls the Heart Full cast and crew
Hallmark Channel’s When Calls The Heart Facebook Page
When Hope Calls
A spin-off series from When Calls the Heart, When Hope Calls tells the story of sisters who start the New Hope Orphanage and the citizens of Brookfield. Starring Morgan Kohan (Lillian Walsh), Ryan-James Hatanaka (Constable Gabriel Kinslow), Wendy Crewson (Tess Stewart), along with an amazing supporting cast, it tells stories that are uplifting and inspiring. A Christmas special, When Hope Calls Christmas, was shown in December 2021 and had special guest stars from When Calls the Heart Lori Loughlin (Abigail Stanton) and Daniel Lissing (Constable Jack Thornton).
When Hope Calls – An Official Hearties Group (Facebook)
When Hope Calls – Official Hearties Account (Instagram)
When Hope Calls – Official Hearties Account (Twitter)
GAC Family’s When Hope Calls Page
When Hope Calls Full Cast & Crew
Hearties
The term Hearties was coined by Janet Roark. This website grew out of our passionate, active, and rapidly expanding Facebook fan base. We model our forum after the citizens of Hope Valley and Brookfield! Please check out the Official Hearties Social Media accounts:
Hearties International Page (Facebook)
We understand that social media isn’t for everyone and we want to offer Hearties worldwide a place to share their love of the show. We invite you to browse the latest news, check out photos and videos, read stories, peruse treasured WCTH quotes, and more here on this website!
We hope you cherish When Calls The Heart and When Hope Calls as much as we do!
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“To me, the legacy of When Calls the Heart is the Hearties [the show’s devoted fan ‘club’], the most important legacy long after the show ends,” Bird says. “The Hearties will still be there as friends in the community. So many new friends have been made through this and they love each other. It’s like there’s sort of a form of church that’s happening, sense of community, people caring about another and praying for one another.”
—Brian Bird, Creator and Executive Producer
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*All rights go to Crown Media, Hallmark Channel, When Hope Calls, GAC Family, and the makers of When Calls The Heart.*
Hi! I was wondering if anyone knows if there is an address to send fan mail? I wanted to send Erin a letter, but I’m not sure where to send it to. I’d appreciate it if someone could let me know!
how do I subscribe to your e newsletter?
There’s a sign up button on the homepage of TheHearties.com site.
Today at the Colorado Hearties gathering we were brainstorming Maideas for getting the word out to our Hearties in Colorado about our events. It always seems that as we are posting pics someone mentions they would have come “had they known” is there a way in the newsletter that you could have a contact list of organizers of local Hearties groups that interested folks could contact. I would be the contact for Colorado Hearties. Just a thought.
Mary Rafferty Hertzog
ideas not Maideas!!!
Hi Mary,
I live in the front range of Colorado, so I’m curious where you hearties get together?
Hi Mary!
I live in Colorado also and would love to take part in the gatherings. Can you give me more information?
I’m wanting to know if the special 2 hour Christmas special can be purchased
on dvd & when?
We will post when it is available.
Love this show like many fans, and so so happy my husband and I found it just last week (we have been binge-watching on amazon & netflix!) because it has lovely stories, great values (in my opinion) and I very much enjoy the historical basis. The professional & moral character of the Mounties is so well portrayed.
I am not sure if this is the correct forum — but if you do correspond with the writers et al, I am just so sad about the historical & geographical inaccuracies in the scripts!!! Perhaps others have also commented on this? I have seen some comments on costume inaccuracies already. A few dialogue examples such as “Which President was a bachelor”, “the State Judge / legal system”, “going to NY to act”, and “they have Philadelphia money” are all off base as this is supposedly based in Canada??
Canada and the US were very distinct countries particularly at that time where the systems of justice et al were very different north and south of the border. There were still deep emotions about the War of 1812 between the US and the British Empire. Canadians didn’t typically study or talk about US legal / governance and it was not a simple matter to travel between the countries. Canada was still very aligned to Britain. The West was a place apart however, as there was more movement North / South, yet Western Canada had distinct heritage, laws, customs and rules.
Canada in the early 1900’s had a Prime Minister – the Great Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier. It was a very exciting time as the new Province of Alberta joined the Confederation in 1905, prior to that time it was part of the NorthWest Territory (hence the NW Mounted Police) . The Province of British Columbia joined Confederation in 1871.
Historical accuracy would be helpful and educational to viewers, please. Also, is Hamilton supposed to be Hamilton, Ontario (on Lake Ontario) or is it a fictional place?
Perhaps these comments may be passed on to the writers / producers…
thanks and again I really enjoy the storytelling and character development. Hopefully the series will continue!?
Love this show!! Watched it since I saw the previews…. Reminds me of Little House on the Prairie Live Jack and Elizabeth Definitely a #Heartie
Hi, I love this show! I tried to sign up for the newsletter but I am getting this error. I’ve checked all of my folders. Can you confirm if I am listed? thanks!
Error Sending Message Bad username / password
You are on the subscriber list, but not confirmed. You should have an email from the system in which there is a link you must click in order to confirm your subscription. That’s a way for the system to confirm that you gave a working email. Look in your spam folder for it.
I just recently started watching “When Calls the Heart” and have much to catch up on. I want to buy the DVDs as I am still more a physical DVD person than down loading to computer.
I have tried to sign up for your newsletter, BUT get an error message whether I sign up under Safari or Firefox.
Looking forward to getting your newsletter.
Thank you.
Pamela, you are on the mailing list but you are not confirmed. You should have received an email in which there was a link to click in order to confirm your subscription. Look in your spam folder for that email, click on it, and you will be confirmed.
I keep getting the same error message too, and there is no email waiting for me to confirm. Yes, I did check my spam folder.
You are on the subscriber list, but not confirmed. You should have an email from the system in which there is a link you must click in order to confirm your subscription. That’s a way for the system to confirm that you gave a working email. I will mark you as confirmed. Not sure why you didn’t get the email.