Skip to content
Home Stacks Studios Standing Sets Build A Set Services Props Shot Here Resources Sustainability About WTF We’re Hiring Contact Book a Scout
Four concept renderings of the same entrance canopy dressed as a hospital, a police division, an airport terminal and a corporate headquarters
Backlot & Exteriors · Proposed Redresses · Hamilton, ON

Backlot & Exterior Locations

14 exterior settings we can build on our own lots — shown as concept renderings. Tell us which ones you would shoot.

Browse the SettingsRegister Interest
Scroll

Exteriors, built to order

Digital Canaries has 35+ dressed standing sets indoors. Outdoors, our lots in Hamilton have the façades to carry more: a storefront entrance under a permanent canopy, a two-bay garage, a long clerestory building, fenced yards, a Quonset hut, a cabin against the tree line. Each setting below is a proposed exterior redress of one of those façades, shown as a concept rendering. None is built today.

How this works

  1. Open a setting and look at the rendering.
  2. If you would shoot it, register interest with your dates — it goes straight into our booking enquiry, already naming the setting.
  3. The settings productions ask for are the ones we build first. We come back to you with timing and a quote.

Several settings share one building — the entrance canopy takes hospital, police, airport and corporate signage; the two-bay garage becomes a fire hall, a body shop or a municipal depot. Each page says which façade it is and links to its other dressings, and to the standing-set interiors it would cut to. The one exterior shootable today is the controlled exterior at 190 Britannia.

Proposed · concept renderings

14 Exterior Settings

The buildings exist today on Digital Canaries lots; each setting is a redress (or, for the cabin, a build) done to order. Every page shows the building as it stands next to the rendering. Open a setting, then register interest with your dates.

Hospital Emergency Entrance — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed redress · Modular entrance canopy
Hospital Emergency Entrance
An illuminated Emergency entrance with automatic doors, ambulance-bay signage and a lit hospital sign on the wall.
 Police Station Entrance — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed redress · Modular entrance canopy
Police Station Entrance
A police division public entrance with crest, division signage, a covered doorway and a cruiser at the kerb.
 Airport Terminal Entrance — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed redress · Modular entrance canopy
Airport Terminal Entrance
A regional airport terminal entrance with Arrivals signage, wayfinding, luggage trolleys and a baggage carousel visible inside.
 Corporate Headquarters Entrance — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed redress · Modular entrance canopy
Corporate Headquarters Entrance
A tech-company headquarters entrance with a logo sign, reception and visitor wayfinding, in dark cladding with planting.
 Small-Town Fire Station — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed redress · Two-bay garage
Small-Town Fire Station
A two-bay volunteer fire hall with red apparatus doors, a painted Station 1 sign and a community notice board.
 Auto Body Shop — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed redress · Two-bay garage
Auto Body Shop
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 — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed redress · Two-bay garage
Municipal Fleet Garage
A two-bay municipal fleet services garage with numbered bays, a plain sign and traffic cones.
 Medical Examiner's Office — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed redress · Clerestory building
Medical Examiner's Office
A medical examiner's receiving entrance: green double doors under a small canopy, a receiving bell and a body trolley outside.
 Local Police Station — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed redress · Clerestory building
Local Police Station
A small-town police station front office with a Police Station sign, public entrance, community notice board and visitor parking.
 County Detention Intake — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed redress · Fenced industrial yard
County Detention Intake
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 — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed redress · Block building
Small-Town Police Station
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 — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed redress · Gated compound
Secure Receiving Dock
A secure receiving entrance behind a chain-link gate: authorized-vehicles-only signage, bollards and a gravel compound.
 Restricted Storage Quonset — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed redress · Quonset hut
Restricted Storage Quonset
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 — concept rendering of a proposed exterior redress at Digital Canaries, Hamilton
Proposed build · Tree-line yard
Cabin in the Woods
A small timber cabin with a covered porch against the tree line, beside a stone retaining wall — a build in the tree-line yard.

Renderings are concept images, not photographs. None of these settings is built today; the one exterior shootable now is the controlled exterior at 190 Britannia.

Common Questions

Good To Know

Are these exterior locations built?
No. Every setting on this page is a proposed redress of an existing façade on a Digital Canaries lot in Hamilton, shown as a concept rendering. A production registers interest and the redress is built to order for its dates.
How do I register interest?
Open the setting and use Register Interest. It takes you to the booking form with the setting already named; add your dates and a line about the production. We reply with timing and a quote.
Can the signage and names be changed?
Yes. Signage, graphics and dressing in the renderings are placeholders. The entrance canopy is designed around an interchangeable sign cabinet and side panels, and every other setting is dressed to the script.
Do the exteriors match interiors you already have?
That is the point. The hospital entrance cuts to the emergency room, wards and corridors; the police and detention exteriors cut to the bullpen, interrogation rooms and cells; the airport entrance cuts to the airplane cabin. Each page lists the standing sets it pairs with.
Where are they?
On the Digital Canaries lots in Hamilton, Ontario, about an hour from Toronto. Which building each setting uses is stated on its page as the base façade; the studio address is confirmed at the scout.
Ready When You Are Tour the studio, walk the sets, see the props.
Book a Scout →