Indie distributor DRG has acquired the international sales rights to the CBC drama Strange Empire.

DRG will start touting the series from Durham County creator Laurie Finstad, comprising 13 one-hour episodes now being shot just outside of Vancouver, at MIPCOM.

Finstead created and wrote Strange Empire, the Cara Gee-starrer about a caravan of women forced to make new lives for themselves in a frontier Alberta-Montana town in 1869.

Finstad, Tim Johnson and Jeff Sagansky executive produce the horse and buggy drama, which is produced by Janestown Productions, in association with Johnson Production Group.

London-based DRG earlier secured the global distribution rights to CBC reality series as part of a two-year deal.

The deal also saw DRG supply early-stage financing for CBC formats.