Chapter I: Front Matter

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F.H.E. HASELL]

ACROSS THE PRAIRIE IN A MOTOR CARAVAN

_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

IX. SANDSTORMS AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS 42

X. ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES 51

XI. SOME ASPECTS OF PRAIRIE LIFE 55

XII. MISSIONS AND MUD HOLES 62

XIII. FURTHER PRAIRIE SKETCHES 71

XIV. A CAMPING TRIP IN THE ROCKIES 78

XV. ON THE RETURN JOURNEY 81

XVI. AMONG THE PRAIRIE FARMS 86

XVII. BACK TO REGINA 93

XVIII. AN INDIAN RESERVE 98

XIX. HEADED FOR HOME 100

XX. SOME PRESENT-DAY NEEDS OF THE PRAIRIE 104