Adventures in Rainbow Country

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Adventures in Rainbow Country was a Canadian television series, which aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1970 and 1971.

A half hour family drama, the show starred Lois Maxwell as Nancy Williams, a widow raising her two children, Billy (Stephen Cottier) and Hannah (Susan Conway) in rural Northern Ontario. Other characters included Billy's Ojibwa friend Pete Gawa (Buckley Petawabano) and bush pilot Dennis McGubgub (Wally Koster).

The show was filmed near Espanola, in Birch Island and on Manitoulin Island in 1969. There were 26 episodes of the series. It continued to air in repeats, both in Canada and internationally, until well into the 1980s.

The Sudbury and Manitoulin Districts are to this day known as the Rainbow Country tourist region, as a result of this series.