During the early 1900's thousands of Canada's "Lonely Hearts" hoped to find companionship, love and a future through advertisement in The Western Home Monthly, a Winnipeg based nationally distributed magazine. Many a prosperous young farmer, with a half section of prairie land, used this, along with the cost of train fare, as a vehicle to find himself a hard working wife and companion. Mail-Order annie tells the story of one such union. Rich in "Canadiana" and carefully researched, the story traces the lives of annie O'Ryan, a spinster from Belleville Ontario, and John Proctor, a grain farmer on Saskatchewan's great prairie. From their "stormy" first meeting at a rural CPR station, through the Great Depression and finally WWII, we share the hopes and dreams of a struggling Canadian family.