Across the Prairie in a Motor Caravan / A 3,000 Mile Tour by Two Englishwomen on Behalf of Religious Education

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.

The diocese of Qu'Appelle, in the province of Saskatchewan, Western Canada, is so named from the Indian story which tells of the maiden who lay dying, calling piteously for her lover. He, far off in his canoe on the Saskatchewan River, suddenly heard a voice, and answered: Qu'Appelle. The voice came again, and then he knew it for that of his beloved, and made all speed to her side. But, alas! when he reached her she was dead.
Qu'Appelle is a suggestive title and indicative of the call which so many have heard from the prairie provinces, a twofold call, urging some to earthly and some to spiritual husbandry. Some account of the Western Canada of to-day may be useful here.