I vaguely remember Mr. Dressup and used to watch The Friendly Giant, and though I didn't watch it, I remember the Littlest Hobo. I think my mother always watched The Beachcombers.

There used to be a cop show I enjoyed, back in the mid-1980s that made it to late night cable TV here in the U.S., called Night Heat. Set in a supposed large North American city, but it (as the IMDb page says) looked like Toronto. I imagine that is where they filmed it. They always sounded very Canadian, despite a couple of more generic East Coast accents from the Boston to Brooklyn zone.

SRS