Two boys survive a train crash and are raised as brothers by a small town, given the names Harris and Everett Greenwood.

Harris loses his eyesight before his First World War deployment, and Everett secretly enlists using Harris's name in his place.

Everett's shellshock delays his return home, leading Harris to believe he is dead and cut down every tree on their property.

Everett finds an abandoned newborn baby wrapped in cloth and hanging from a maple tree outside his woodland shack.

R.J. Holt sends enforcer Harvey Lomax to retrieve the abandoned baby and Euphemia Baxter's incriminating diary from whoever has taken them.

Harris hires Irish poet Liam Feeney as his personal describer and travels with him to Japan to negotiate a major timber deal.

Harris wins ownership of Greenwood Island from American industrialist Rockefeller in an arm-wrestling match at a Vancouver soirée.

Lomax blackmails Harris over his secret relationship with Feeney, forcing Harris to betray Everett's location to the authorities.

Everett is arrested on Greenwood Island and falsely claims to have killed the baby in order to protect her real identity.

Willow picks up Everett from prison at Harris's request, and Everett hints at a deeper connection to her that she cannot place.

Harris dies, and the reading of his will reveals Willow as his primary heir despite their long estrangement.

Willow donates Greenwood Island to an environmental organization and chooses a life of direct action rather than inherited wealth.

Liam Greenwood falls from scaffolding and breaks his spine, lying trapped in a house while reviewing his life's choices.

Jake Greenwood cuts down the Cathedral's oldest Douglas fir without authorization to stop a deadly fungal infection from spreading.

Jake is expelled from Greenwood Island but watches pollen spread through the forest as she departs, leaving with renewed hope.

This pool traces the most consequential events of the Greenwood family across five generations, from the train crash that created two adoptive brothers to Jake's final act of defiance on the island. Harris and Everett's early bond is tested by war, blindness, and the arrival of an abandoned baby who becomes the chain linking every generation that follows. Harris builds a timber empire, acquires Greenwood Island, and ultimately betrays his brother to protect his own secrets. Decades of estrangement, inheritance, and environmental crisis follow as Willow, Liam, and Jake each wrestle with the legacy left behind. The pool ends with Jake cutting down the forest's most iconic tree to save it, then leaving the island with the first real hope the Greenwood family has felt in a century.

The headline events of the Greenwood family saga from 1908 to 2038.

The unnamed town decides to give only Harris a formal education, citing his entrepreneurial potential over Everett's.

Mrs. Craig dies of consumption and bequeaths her property to the Greenwood boys, requiring them to burn her house down first.

Harris sets fire to a forest island to retaliate against poachers who are undermining his logging rights.

Everett attempts to give the baby to Catholic nuns in Saint John, then leaves her with a stranger arranged by his friend Blank.

Lomax searches military records at the Archives of Canada and discovers that Everett is Harris Greenwood's estranged brother.

Everett and Pod arrive at Temple Van Horne's drought-stricken Saskatchewan farm, where he offers to plant maple trees for shelter.

Temple teaches Everett to read using Homer's Odyssey, and the two fall in love after finishing the saplings together.

Harris and Feeney begin a romantic relationship during their Japan voyage, sharing evenings together at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

Everett hides Euphemia's diary on Temple's library shelves, labeling it with baby Willow's name spelled phonetically.

A cyclone destroys Temple's farm while McSorley searches the property, scattering the library's books across the Saskatchewan plains.

Liam Feeney rescues baby Willow from the supply box on Greenwood Island and delivers her to Harris after Everett's arrest.

Willow meets Liam Feeney at Harris's memorial reception and realizes he was her father's secret romantic partner for many years.

Liam Greenwood develops an oxycodone addiction after a work injury, loses his carpentry business, and moves back into his mother's van.

Meena gives birth to Jacinda Greenwood, and Liam spends years ignoring the child's existence despite Meena's repeated attempts to reach him.

Silas approaches Jake during a private tour and argues she may have a legal claim of ownership over Greenwood Island.

This pool covers the formative and supporting events that shape each generation of the Greenwood story without being its central turning points. The pool begins with the small-town decisions that created an unequal upbringing for the two adoptive brothers and follows Everett's desperate attempts across Canada to find a safe home for the baby in his care. It captures how Harris and Feeney's bond deepened in Japan, how Temple's farm was torn apart by a cyclone, and how Feeney quietly rescued baby Willow after Everett's arrest. In 1974, Willow's encounter with Feeney at Harris's memorial finally explains her father's hidden life, while in 2008, Liam's addiction and professional collapse reveal why Jake grew up without a father in her life. The pool concludes in 2038 with Silas arriving at Greenwood Island to hand Jake the diary that will define the final stage of her journey.

The significant scenes that built the world behind the Greenwood family's headline moments.

Harris and Everett use their logging and carpentry earnings to build their own cabin, earning the town's affectionate nickname 'the green wood boys.'

Everett returns from WWI traumatized by shellshock to find the family property sold and Harris permanently gone from the town.

Holt and Lomax break down Euphemia Baxter's door to find her room empty, her newborn baby and diary both gone.

Everett suspects the man left to adopt the baby is working with Blank for the reward, takes the baby back, and escapes by freight train.

Lomax tracks Everett to a Toronto rooming house but Everett escapes before he can be caught, leaving Lomax to continue his pursuit westward.

Everett reveals himself to Harris after years of estrangement, and the brothers argue bitterly over why Everett took his place in the war.

Feeney uses his literary skills to forge a convincing fake diary that successfully satisfies Lomax and sends him away from the Greenwoods.

Feeney discovers that Harris betrayed Everett to Lomax to protect their secret, and resigns from his post, walking out on Harris entirely.

Lomax discovers the diary is a forgery and descends into opium addiction in a Vancouver den, never returning to his family in Saint John.

During their drive together, Willow realizes Everett accidentally called her 'Pod,' hinting at a secret connection he refuses to explain.

After parting ways with Everett, Willow recalls that his earliest letter said he was imprisoned for taking something that could never belong to him.

Liam crafts a replica Stradivarius viola as a birthday gift for Meena, but she rejects it as an attempt to control her independence.

Liam visits Everett at the Saskatchewan farm to honor a dying promise to Willow, and the two build a picnic table together before Everett dies.

Jake discovers an aggressive fungus infecting the Cathedral's trees and watches her colleague Knut be expelled for attempting to cut them down.

Jake challenges Silas over whether she is descended from Holt or Lomax, then asserts her sole ownership of the diary and its slipcase.

This pool follows the pivotal moments of revelation and consequence that permanently alter each character's path through the story. Beginning with the brothers' shared childhood success and Everett's traumatic return from war, the pool moves through the 1934 narrative's most charged confrontations: Everett taking back the baby, the forging of a false diary, Harris's betrayal of his brother, and Feeney's departure. Each event represents a point of no return for someone in the story. In 1974, Willow's dawning suspicion about her own origins is captured in two closely observed moments with Everett. Liam's 2008 arc reaches its emotional peak when his gift of a replica viola is rejected as an act of control, and his final act of carving his will onto the floor stands as his only real acknowledgment of his daughter. The pool closes in 2038 with Jake seizing ownership of the diary that binds the entire family history together.

The key decisions and discoveries that shattered loyalties and reshaped the Greenwood family across every generation.