# Digital Canaries

> Digital Canaries — Hamilton, Ontario standing-set studio for film, TV and commercial production, an hour from Toronto and serving the GTA.

Digital Canaries is an independent film studio in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
The studios are located in Hamilton and serve film, television and commercial productions throughout Hamilton, Toronto and the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), Ontario, Canada.
Independent studio since 2007; a facilities business renting standing sets since 2015.
We keep 35+ dressed standing sets grouped into 6 bookable Stacks, plus 5,000+ props and 40,000 books.

Positioning: **Every set. One contract. One city.**

## Locations

- **Digital Canaries — Britannia Studio** — 190 Britannia Avenue East, Hamilton, ON L8H 1X5, Canada
- **Digital Canaries — Queen Street Studio** — 243 Queen Street North, Hamilton, ON L8R 3N6, Canada — square footage: 28,000 sq ft (the Queen Street complex)
- **Digital Canaries — Stuart Street** — 252 Stuart Street, Hamilton, ON L8R 2W6, Canada — studio / build space: 4,700 sq ft, 120′ 1″ × 39′ 4″ overall; open studio area approx. 45′ × 39′ 4″; clear height to beam: 14′ 8″ to the underside of the beams (18′ 11″ to the joists, 19′ 7″ to the deck); lighting grid above the beams; hair & makeup room: 29′ 6″ × 10′ 2″; floor plan (PDF): https://digitalcanaries.com/wp-content/uploads/dc-cms/plans/243-queen-252-stuart-film-studio-floor-plan.pdf
- **Hamilton Prop House** (sister brand, separate business) — 422 Barton Street East, Hamilton, ON L8L 2Y6, Canada — https://hamiltonprophouse.com/

## The Stacks

- **Law & Order** — Arrest to verdict to cell. (Bullpen → Interrogation → Evidence → Courtroom → Cells)
- **Medicine** — ER to morgue. (ER → Operating Room → Recovery → Ward → Morgue)
- **In Transit** — Travel without leaving the ground. (Airplane → Business Jet → Train → Elevator)
- **Lived-In** — Where the characters actually live. (Loft → Kitchen → Apartment → Cafe → Bar)
- **Institutions** — School bell to boardroom. (Classroom → Lockers → Boardroom → Offices)
- **Signature** — The rooms people book us for. (Bookcase → Basement → Exterior)

## Pages

- [Home Page](https://digitalcanaries.com/) — Studio overview — 35+ dressed standing sets in six stacks, props, services, booking.
- [The Stacks](https://digitalcanaries.com/stacks/) — The six Stacks: bundles of dressed sets that cover a whole story world in one city.
- [Standing Sets](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/) — Every standing set in the library — police, courtroom, hospital, morgue, jail, airplane, bar, train, classroom and more.
- [Studios](https://digitalcanaries.com/studios/) — The physical spaces: Britannia set floor, 243 Queen St N flagship, build floor and exteriors.
- [Book a Tour / Bookings](https://digitalcanaries.com/bookings/) — Book a scout or hold dates — what to send us and what happens next.
- [Build A Set](https://digitalcanaries.com/build-a-set/) — Build a set with us — space to build in, set construction, installations, and set recovery/repurposing.
- [Prop Rentals](https://digitalcanaries.com/prop-rentals/) — Prop rentals — 5,000+ props and 40,000 books, shared with sister brand Hamilton Prop House.
- [Services](https://digitalcanaries.com/services/) — Production services anchored at 243 Queen St N — basecamp, crew parking, cast and crew holding, build crew.
- [Contact](https://digitalcanaries.com/contact/) — Contact the studio — addresses, phone, email and enquiry form.
- [Marketplace](https://digitalcanaries.com/marketplace/) — Rent or buy — the multi-vendor rental catalogue plus surplus set pieces for sale.
- [Gallery](https://digitalcanaries.com/gallery/) — Shot Here — productions filmed at Digital Canaries.
- [Careers](https://digitalcanaries.com/careers/) — Open jobs at Digital Canaries and Hamilton Prop House.
- [Resources](https://digitalcanaries.com/resources/) — Crew and resources for the Hamilton film community, plus the crew roster signup.
- [Sustainability](https://digitalcanaries.com/sustainability/) — How the studio works circularly — manifesto, industry watch, reading library.
- [About Us](https://digitalcanaries.com/about/) — Who Digital Canaries is: an independent Hamilton studio since 2007, a facilities business since 2015.
- [Standing Sets, Explained](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets-explained/) — What a standing set is, why film and TV productions book them, and how the 35+ sets at Digital Canaries are organised — with a link to every set.
- [Backlot & Exterior Locations](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/) — Backlot and exterior location settings — proposed redresses of existing façades on the DC lots, shown as concept renderings and built to order; register interest per setting.
- [WTF](https://digitalcanaries.com/wtf/) — Work To Film (WTF!) — trade set-build hours for studio time. 100 approved hours = one free shoot day.

## Studios (one page each)

- [190 Britannia Avenue East](https://digitalcanaries.com/studios/britannia/) — Film Studio. The current Digital Canaries studio — dressed standing sets across six Stacks and a build floor, in Hamilton, Ontario.
- [243 Queen Street North](https://digitalcanaries.com/studios/queen-street/) — Studio Complex. The 28,000 sq ft Queen Street complex — jail, holding, prison and interrogation sets, with basecamp, crew parking and holding on site.
- [252 Stuart Street](https://digitalcanaries.com/studios/stuart-street/) — Film Studio & Build Space. A separate building in the Queen Street complex — 4,700 sq ft of film studio and build space, 14′ 8″ clear to the beam.

## Standing sets (one page each)

**Law & Order Stack**
- [Police Bullpen](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/police-bullpen/) — Offices, interview rooms and evidence storage. Our most-shot police environment.
- [Interrogation — Large](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/interrogation-large/) — Two-way mirror, table, camera-friendly corner rigging.
- [Interrogation — Standard](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/interrogation-standard/) — Tight, moody, cop-show ready.
- [Police Interview Room](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/police-interview/) — Softer than interrogation — statements, witnesses, family notifications.
- [Evidence Locker](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/evidence-locker/) — Bagged and tagged, dressing customisable.
- [Prison Cells](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/prison-cells/) — Two cells — bars, bunks, current or historical dressing.
- [Holding Cells](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/holding-cells/) — Booking-desk-adjacent, dressed for arrest and intake sequences.
- [Courtroom — Queen St](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/courtroom-queen/) — A new courtroom being built at the Queen Street studio.
- [Courtroom — Grand](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/courtroom-grand/) — Sconce-lit entrance, full judge's bench, jury box and gallery.
- [Courtroom — Standard](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/courtroom-standard/) — Cinematic angles, ready for testimony and verdict.
- [Courtroom — Chamber](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/courtroom-chamber/) — Intimate variant for private hearings and plea negotiations.
**Medicine Stack**
- [Operating Room — Suite](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/operating-room-surgery/) — Overhead surgical lighting, anesthesia rig, monitors.
- [Operating Room — Alt](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/operating-room-alt/) — Different angles, same surgical readiness.
- [Patient Recovery Rooms](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/patient-recovery-rooms/) — Multiple rooms — beds, monitors, IV rigs, curtains.
- [Hospital Recovery](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/hospital-recovery/) — Dedicated recovery suite, dressing changes available.
- [Hospital Ward](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/hospital-ward/) — Multi-bed ward, curtain dividers, nurse station.
- [Emergency Room](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/emergency-room/) — Trauma coverage, resus equipment, plus much more.
- [Morgue](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/morgue/) — Autopsy table, refrigerated storage, clinical fluorescents.
- [Clinic](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/clinic/) — Warmer than the ward. GP visits and consult rooms.
- [Hospital Corridor](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/hospital-corridor/) — Full length, gurney-friendly. Pairs to the OR and morgue.
- [Hospital / Hotel Corridors](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/hospital-corridors/) — Multi-floor system, hospital or hotel dressing.
**In Transit Stack**
- [Airplane Cabin](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/airplane/) — Full cabin with DMX-controlled overhead and rear seat screens — flying scenes without leaving the ground.
- [Business Jet — Falcon 20](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/business-jet/) — Corporate power moves aboard a real Falcon 20 airframe.
- [Train Interior](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/train/) — Full carriage, passenger seating, period or contemporary dressing.
- [Elevator](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/elevator/) — Working car with dressed doors. Pairs with the elevator corridor for arrivals and departures.
**Lived-In Stack**
- [Brick Loft](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/loft-set/) — Exposed brick, industrial character, warm light.
- [Loft Kitchen](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/loft-kitchen/) — Wheeled sink island. Cooking scenes and morning routines.
- [Retro Apartment](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/retro-apartment/) — Swap the palette to hit different decades.
- [Restaurant / Cafe / Bar](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/cafe-bar/) — Meet-cutes, first dates, board dinners.
- [Bar](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/moss-bar/) — DMX rigged into the display fixtures. Dark, moody, cinematic.
**Institutions Stack**
- [Classroom](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/classroom/) — Multiple configurations, from elementary through university lecture-hall styling.
- [School Lockers Corridor](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/school-lockers/) — High-school aesthetic. Meet-and-greets and chase-scene coverage.
- [Boardroom](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/boardroom/) — Long table, credibility lighting. Corporate drama and product reveals.
- [Offices](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/offices/) — Open-plan and private offices with multiple partition setups.
**Signature Stack**
- [Live From The Bookcase](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/bookcase/) — A signature backdrop dressed with over 40,000 books — interviews, panels, podcasts.
- [Concrete Basement](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/basement/) — Raw, industrial, moody. Hostage scenes, breakdowns, grimy detective work.
- [Exterior Setup](https://digitalcanaries.com/standing-sets/exterior/) — Controlled exterior with fabricated street detail — weather-independent.

## Backlot & exterior locations (one page each)

These are PROPOSED exterior redresses of existing buildings on the Digital Canaries lots in Hamilton — the buildings exist today and each page photographs them as they stand — shown as concept renderings and built to order for a production. They are not standing sets, are not counted in the 35+ sets above, and none is standing today — a production registers interest and the redress is built for its dates. Hub: https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/

- [Hospital Emergency Entrance](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/hospital-emergency-entrance/) — proposed redress of the modular entrance canopy. An illuminated Emergency entrance with automatic doors, ambulance-bay signage and a lit hospital sign on the wall.
- [Police Station Entrance](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/police-station-entrance/) — proposed redress of the modular entrance canopy. A police division public entrance with crest, division signage, a covered doorway and a cruiser at the kerb.
- [Airport Terminal Entrance](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/airport-terminal-entrance/) — proposed redress of the modular entrance canopy. A regional airport terminal entrance with Arrivals signage, wayfinding, luggage trolleys and a baggage carousel visible inside.
- [Corporate Headquarters Entrance](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/corporate-office-entrance/) — proposed redress of the modular entrance canopy. A tech-company headquarters entrance with a logo sign, reception and visitor wayfinding, in dark cladding with planting.
- [Small-Town Fire Station](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/small-town-fire-station/) — proposed redress of the two-bay garage. A two-bay volunteer fire hall with red apparatus doors, a painted Station 1 sign and a community notice board.
- [Auto Body Shop](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/auto-body-shop/) — proposed redress of the two-bay garage. A two-bay auto body and collision shop with a hand-painted sign, a free-estimates board and a damaged car out front.
- [Municipal Fleet Garage](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/municipal-garage/) — proposed redress of the two-bay garage. A two-bay municipal fleet services garage with numbered bays, a plain sign and traffic cones.
- [Medical Examiner's Office](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/medical-examiner-office/) — proposed redress of the clerestory building. A medical examiner's receiving entrance: green double doors under a small canopy, a receiving bell and a body trolley outside.
- [Local Police Station](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/local-police-station/) — proposed redress of the clerestory building. A small-town police station front office with a Police Station sign, public entrance, community notice board and visitor parking.
- [County Detention Intake](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/detention-facility-intake/) — proposed redress of the fenced industrial yard. A county detention facility prisoner intake: roller door, sally-port signage, chain-link gates, a guard hut and authorized-vehicles-only signs.
- [Small-Town Police Station](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/small-town-police-station/) — proposed redress of the block building. A rural police station: a white block building with blue trim, a POLICE sign over the public entrance and a cruiser on the gravel lot.
- [Secure Receiving Dock](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/secure-receiving-dock/) — proposed redress of the gated compound. A secure receiving entrance behind a chain-link gate: authorized-vehicles-only signage, bollards and a gravel compound.
- [Restricted Storage Quonset](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/quonset-storage-bunker/) — proposed redress of the quonset hut. A military-style Quonset hut marked Restricted Storage 04, behind chain-link fencing with stacked crates and a steel-plate approach.
- [Cabin in the Woods](https://digitalcanaries.com/locations/cabin-in-the-woods/) — proposed redress of the tree-line yard. A small timber cabin with a covered porch against the tree line, beside a stone retaining wall — a build in the tree-line yard.

## Shot here

- BlackBerry
- V-Wars
- The Umbrella Academy
- Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol
- Reacher
- The Boys
- Megalopolis — The morgue
- Titans
- Jupiter Ascending
- Canada's Drag Race
- Children Ruin Everything
- Grace Period
- Martin Garrix & Khalid "Ocean"
- National commercial campaigns — Full credit list and references on request

## Pricing

No rates are published. Day rates and stack pricing are quoted per project — send your dates and we quote within 24 hours of a scout.
The one published exchange is the Work To Film program: 100 approved build hours = one free shoot day; skilled trades earn at 1.5x (about 67 hours).

## Contact

- Email: contact@digitalcanaries.com
- Phone: text 905-703-9944
- Book a scout: https://digitalcanaries.com/bookings/
- Enquiries: https://digitalcanaries.com/contact/

## Elsewhere

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalcanaries/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDzJNubQ7F5BFbC5uXd93jA
- LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/company/digital-canaries-film-studio
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digitalcanaries
- X: https://x.com/digitalcanaries
- Threads: https://www.threads.com/@digitalcanaries

## Machine-readable

- [Full site text](https://digitalcanaries.com/llms-full.txt) — every public page as markdown, in one file
- [Registry](https://digitalcanaries.com/schema.json) — full JSON registry of pages, sets and endpoints
- [Sitemap](https://digitalcanaries.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Robots](https://digitalcanaries.com/robots.txt)
- Public REST API: https://digitalcanaries.com/wp-json/dc/v1/ (`sets`, `props`, `marketplace`, `hiring/jobs`, `schema`)

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