In case you missed it, there was a movie filmed, in part, in Huntsville this fall. A Veteran’s Christmas premiered on the Hallmark channel in the U.S. on November 11 and aired in Canada on the W Network on November 12.
Many planned to tune in to watch for scenes from our town. Among them were 18 Canadians gathered at a home on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, most of them residents of the Huntsville area.
The movie tells the fictional story of a female U.S. Marine who is returning home after a tour of duty in Afghanistan. She is involved in a minor traffic accident in the town of Rivers Crossing and is stranded there before Christmas while her car is being repaired. The town opens its welcoming arms to the stranded vet where she eventually finds love.
Prominently featured in the movie is Huntsville’s Main Street, Town Hall’s clock tower, the historic swing bridge, and the retail stores around the corner of Main Street and Brunel Road.
There were call-outs every time Soapstones or The Nutty Chocolatier appeared on the screen.
“I saw them shooting that night scene at the Christmas Tree lighting,” one said.
Another asked, “Where’s the military base outside Huntsville where Christmas trees were handed out to vets?”
And at least one noted that the skating rink in the movie has appeared in at least a few Hallmark films, quipping, “That’s not our rink.”
It was a Harlequin romance kind of movie, notes Rob Hurst, adding that most of the viewers were engaged to the end save for a few of the men who went to watch football instead.
Did you watch the movie? Tell us what you thought in the comments!
Thanks to Rob and Cathy Hurst for sharing this story with Doppler
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Bev Ferguson says
The airport, carrousel and Demarco’s are definitely filmed here in North Bay…some scenes like arena..may have been Powassan…both busy places for a few years with film crews…
Heather baxter says
I missed it and was wondering if it is going to be on a Canadian channel again.
Dawn Huddlestone says
Hi Heather,
Another reader let us know that it will air again on the W Network on November 18 at 5pm ET.
https://www.wnetwork.com/schedule/
John Maltby says
The church the used car lot and the repair shop where the jeep that was fixed in the movie was done in Powassan the carrisel ride North Bay and a lot in downtown Huntsville
John Maltby says
As a former Powassan resident the United church in Powassan (origionally built in the 1920’s as a Methodist church) was definately used for exterior shoots around the street entrance in the middle of the movie -100 % sure on that, 100 % sure a different much nicer church was used for the interior shoots however.
100% sure Garlands garage/gas station in Powassan was converted into a used car lot for an outside shoot at the very beginning of the movie, inside of the same garage was possibly used for the repair assessment of the crashed jeep shoot at the beginning of the movie although I am not 100 percent sure on that but very strong evidence as the repair pit in that garage and the cieling heating vents sure looks like Garlands garage from my memory. The owner Gary Garland will know for sure. The scene shots according to local Powassan residents were all done back in September (2018) . Hallmark is infinately quicker getting movies edited and released ( mere weeks!!!) unlike Hollywood who wait years after all the shoots are done before release but then again there were no special effects, CGI or stunts required for this (romance) movie.