Introduction: 'Ana Historic' is the story of Mrs Richards, a young Victorian widow who in 1873 took up the post of schoolteacher in what would become Vancouver, then a muddy mill town. The bare bones of her life are discovered by Annie, wife of Richard, a history professor. Annie becomes obsessed with imaginative reconstruction of this first Mrs Richards' life: her arrival from England, her tasks at Hastings Mill Schoolhouse, her solitary walks through the dripping forest...

Personen: Marlatt, Daphne