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Frances Hatton Eva Hasell
1886–1974
A British traveler, missionary, and writer, she is best remembered for taking Sunday school and religious education to isolated communities across the Canadian prairies by motor caravan. Her memoir of those journeys, Across the Prairie in a Motor Caravan, captures both the hardship and adventure of that work.
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Across the Prairie in a Motor Caravan A 3,000 Mile Tour by Two Englishwomen on Behalf of Religious Education
by Frances Hatton Eva Hasell, Iris Eugenie Friend Sayle
About the author
Born in England in 1886, Eva Hasell became known for energetic work in western Canada, where she organized and led the Canadian Caravan Mission. Using motor caravans to reach scattered rural settlements, she brought classes and church-based education to children living far from towns and regular parish life.
She was honored with an MBE for this work, and her name remained closely tied to the mission she helped build. Alongside her practical missionary work, she also wrote about travel and life on the prairies, most notably in Across the Prairie in a Motor Caravan, a lively account of a 3,000-mile journey made on behalf of religious education.
Hasell died in 1974. Today she is remembered not only as a missionary, but as a determined observer of prairie life whose writing offers a vivid picture of travel, faith, and community in early twentieth-century Canada.