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[Illustration: ACROSS THE PRAIRIE
F.H.E. HASELL]
ACROSS THE PRAIRIE IN A MOTOR CARAVAN
[Illustration: THE CANADIAN DOMINION IN DIOCESES
_By permission of S.P.G._ _Frontispiece_]
ACROSS THE PRAIRIE IN A MOTOR CARAVAN
A 3,000 MILE TOUR BY TWO ENGLISHWOMEN ON BEHALF OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
BY F. H. EVA HASELL IN COLLABORATION WITH J. F. S.
WITH 18 ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP
LONDON SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK AND TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN CO. 1922
TO
AYLMER BOSANQUET
WHOSE SELF-SACRIFICE, DEEP SPIRITUALITY, AND FAR-SEEING VISION INSPIRED THIS VENTURE, THIS BOOK IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
LETTER FROM HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
Lambeth Palace, London, S.E.
Dear Miss Hasell,
I happen to have read the proof sheets of the little book which is to record the story of your work and Miss Ticehurst's in the prairie tracts of Canada, and I should like to tell you how glad I am that the account of these eventful journeyings should be accessible to the public. People realise too little what are the opportunities and responsibilities of pioneer days in those incomparable regions. The perseverance, the indomitable energy, and the buoyant hope which your pages record and inspire will have a place in the annals of that vast seed plot and cradle of a great nation that is to be.
I am,
Yours very truly,
RANDALL CANTUAR.
_October 5th, 1922._
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE CALL OF THE PRAIRIE 1
II. PREPARATIONS AND DEPARTURE 7
III. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE U.S.A. AND CANADA 10
IV. LIFE IN A LITTLE PRAIRIE TOWN 17
V. IN REGINA 22
VI. THE MOTOR CARAVAN 28
VII. THE PRAIRIE TRAILS 33
VIII. FROM WINNIPEG TO REGINA 36
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Across the Prairie in a Motor Caravan by Hasell
- 2: In the province of Saskatchewan
- 3: The perils of drought and storm
- 4: There I met Miss Aylmer Bosanquet and Miss Nona Clarke
- 5: Aylmer Bosanquet wrote to me describing her new plan
- 6: Winifred Ticehurst was to meet me at the boat
- 7: Chapter iii religious education in the u
- 8: A teacher and an assistant teacher for each class
- 9: With the exception of Saskatchewan and Alberta
- 10: The Department of Teacher Training
- 11: Or Anglican Young People's Association
- 12: Kenaston is surrounded by illimitable prairie
- 13: There were only sixteen children at Kenaston
- 14: There are four Anglican churches in Regina
- 15: Who was then Minister of Education for Saskatchewan
- 16: Two women are going in a caravan on the prairie
- 17: Who was also Diocesan Missioner
- 18: Beneath one mattress was a wooden locker
- 19: Seeing what Winnipeg traffic was like
- 20: The sloughs are very beautiful
- 21: The sloughs were lined with mud
- 22: Then we let down the mattresses and arranged the bedding
- 23: New cars need continual adjustment at first
- 24: Going into Regina there was a very bad turn
- 25: Nona telephoned to a doctor in Regina
- 26: Which made the car skid as on loose sand
- 27: Thinking the caravan in danger
- 28: Next morning the vicar showed us his stable
- 29: And camped near the vicarage for the night
- 30: AND MY ASSISTANTS AT LOREBURN To face p
- 31: And have them baptized at the earliest opportunity
- 32: These garages are well fitted up
- 33: There was a very nice Anglican church
- 34: For Winifred had flatly refused
- 35: Great drifts of sand lay on the trail
- 36: In England he had been a coachman
- 37: The Canadian casualties were 152
- 38: The clergy depend upon voluntary contributions
- 39: When I had finished I looked round for Winifred
- 40: But we missed the caravan very much
- 41: So I cranked the car like lightning
- 42: But we arrived at Coleville during evensong
- 43: While I was buying gasolene next morning
- 44: In time a solid wooden shack replaced the sod building
- 45: We made our way to the vicarage
- 46: Some of the leading laity of Youngstown
- 47: Which a thunderstorm made more beautiful
- 48: Monetary support was guaranteed
- 49: Next morning for Alsask and Kindersley
- 50: We arrived at Kindersley about 2
- 51: Our hostess was a trained nurse from St
- 52: A one roomed shack with a cellar beneath
- 53: On Thursday we left for Swanson
- 54: The wheat usually stands only a week in stook
- 55: And I asked Winifred to get out
- 56: They wanted me to stop at Mortlack over Sunday
- 57: So I started off for Regina on the Saturday
- 58: And described our caravan tour
- 59: I knew the garage was open all night
- 60: Quebec is a strangely old world town
- 61: But as I was doing Anglican Mission work
- 62: She lectured and gave demonstration lessons in Regina
- 63: Miss Higginbotham joined Miss West in the spring of 1921
- 64: Qu'Appelle Diocese has three vans at work
- 65: Not only do these hundreds of new schools need teachers
- 66: Footnote 9 Now Bishop of Saskatchewan
