Hands up: When an American-sounding TV show comes out, how many of you just assume it was made in the US? From North American-style accents to indistinguishable locations, it's an easy (or perhaps ignorant) mistake to make. However, there are so many series out there that were actually written, created, filmed and produced in a completely different country. Yep, we're talking about Canada — a country in the North American continent but completely independent from the United States. Here, we take a look at some of the best Canadian shows available to watch on Netflix. See how many you just presumed were American (Picture: Netflix)

1. Schitt's Creek

Schitt's Creek is definitely in the running for one of the most famous and successful sitcoms to come out of Canada. Created by Canadian actors Dan Levy and his father, Eugene Levy, the show follows the out-of-touch and ultra-wealthy Rose family, who are flung headfirst into real life when they lose their fortune after being defrauded by their business manager. The Roses are forced to relocate to Schitt's Creek, a remote Canadian town that Johnny purchased for his son David's birthday in 1991 as a joke. After moving into the town's rundown and only motel, the family must adapt to their new surroundings (Picture: TNS)

2. Kim's Convenience

If you're in the market for another funny and heartfelt story, Kim's Convenience should be added to your watch list. It centres around the Korean-Canadian Kim family: Mr. and Mrs. Kim, their daughter Janet, and their estranged son, Jung. The overarching plot focuses on their lives running a convenience store in Toronto, as Mr. Kim dreams of Janet one day taking over the family business. Spoiler: Janet doesn't want to

3. Frontier

From comedy to historical dramas, Frontier is set in Canada during the 18th-century North American fur trade. Jason Momoa plays Declan Harp, a half-Irish, half-Cree outlaw, campaigning to breach the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly on the fur trade in his native land. Thanks to the greed of the trade, his homeland has become corrupt, and illegal activities are rife. Expect wild landscapes, bloody battles, and period-style scripts (Picture: Netflix)

4. Virgin River

Despite being set in the fictional remote Northern California town of Virgin River, the show is actually filmed in British Columbia. Based on the Virgin River novels by Robyn Carr, the episodes follow Melinda 'Mel' Monroe, a midwife and nurse practitioner. When Mel answers an ad to work in the isolated town, she believes it will be the perfect location to start a new life and leave her old one behind. However, Mel soon learns that small-town living is way less inconspicuous than city living. Everyone knows everyone, and will find out your business one way or another (Picture: Ricardo Hubbs/Netflix)

5. Departure

After some more drama? Departure has it in spades. Emmy Award-winner Archie Panjabi plays Kendra Malley, a talented aviation investigator, who is commissioned to investigate the mystery of Flight 716, a passenger plane that vanished over the Atlantic Ocean. Kendra, who has also recently been widowed, must work against the clock as the whole world watches on. Pressure much? (Picture: Peacock)

6. Travelers

Into science fiction? Travelers is a Canadian sci-fi show set hundreds of years into the future. The cast is made up of surviving humans who figure out how to send their consciousness back through time to the 21st century. At the same time, the supernatural group are trying to figure out how to change the path of humanity (Picture: Jeff Weddell/Netflix)

7. Workin' Moms

Workin' Moms is a rom-com series set in modern-day Toronto, and centres around the lives of five moms in their mid-thirties. All from different worlds, they come together at the 'Mommy and Me' class, and bond over urban motherhood, marriage, careers, and of course, their children

8. Alias Grace

Alias Grace is a historical fiction novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, who also authored The Handmaid's Tale, a futuristic dystopian story that was adapted into an Emmy-winning series. In terms of Alias Grace, it follows Grace Marks, a convicted murderess who has no memory of her 'crime', who has been hired out from prison to serve as a domestic servant in the home of the prison's Governor. Dr. Simon Jordan, a psychiatrist, becomes interested in Grace's case and interviews her daily to try and get an understanding of her psyche. Ultimately, he wants to find out whether or not she is guilty (Picture: Netflix)