Iron Road

- Season 1

(2009)

In 1882, Alfred Nichol, owner of the Nichol Railway Company, is building a railroad through the Canadian Rockies, a project which needs to be completed in a year or else the bank will foreclose on the company's loan. Alfred sends his irresponsible playboy son, James Nichol, to Hong Kong to check on the company's recruitment of Chinese laborers to work on construction of the railroad. Their Hong Kong recruitment agent, Lionel Relic, is a man who has indulged in life. Assisting Relic and James is a young orphan boy named Little Tiger. Unknown to either Relic or James, ...

Despite his first instinct being to send her back to China, James decides to let Little Tiger stay in Canada after he finds out that she is really not a boy but a young woman. Beyond wanting to be with James, Little Tiger is happy to be able to make some money and to be able to look for her father. Quickly, James falls in love with Little Tiger, as she had done with him a long time earlier. Beyond the issue of forbidden love because of racial differences, this relationship causes many problems. First, no one but James knows of Little Tiger's true gender. And second, ...