Photo of Frances M. Hubbert in a long dress on a porch step holding with her infant Noriene Hastings of Beaverlodge, Alberta. The photograph was taken at 189 Essa Road. Ms. Hubbert was a teacher, missionary, and writer born in 1900 at Holly as the seventh child of James Hubbert and Martha Srigley. She graduated as a Deaconess of the Anglican Church in 1929 and was best known as a Friendship Worker for the Anglican Women's Auxiliary (1950-65) and welcomed hundreds of European immigrant families to Toronto after the war in the name of the Church. She found homes, jobs, and arranged classes in English for them, often teaching them herself. In 1964 she alone resettled 145 families and held 474 interviews. From 1933 to 1973 she wrote poems and stories for children, a countless number were published, mainly in Anglican Sunday School papers, "Child's Own." Her "Twilight Hour" (1959) was published in public school reader "Across the Country," "God the Father Hears Today" (1962) was published in the Anglican Hymn Book for Children, "Cradles in a Manger" (1965) was chosen for a new hymn book by the Hymn Society of America and was one of twelve accepted from 400 entries. From 1965 to 1973 she was the Literature Secretary for the national office of the WCTU.
