The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary works, both stories and poems, geared to grade-school age children. (Summary by aradlaw)
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Episodes
Acknowledgements
Episode 0 · 4:40
To-day
Episode 1 · 45s
Fortune and the Beggar
Episode 2 · 2:42
The Lark and the Rook
Episode 3 · 1:55
The Pickwick Club on Ice
Episode 4 · 6:02
Tubal Cain
Episode 5 · 2:33
Professor Frog's Lecture
Episode 6 · 12:44
A Song for April
Episode 7 · 1:05
How the Crickets Brought Good Fortune
Episode 8 · 5:10
The Battle of Blenheim
Episode 9 · 2:21
The Ride for Life
Episode 10 · 5:45
Iagoo, the Boaster
Episode 11 · 1:42
The Story of a Fire
Episode 12 · 3:03
The Quest
Episode 13 · 1:37
The Jackal and the Partridge
Episode 14 · 6:23
Hide and Seek
Episode 15 · 1:48
The Burning of the "Goliath"
Episode 16 · 4:11
Hearts of Oak
Episode 17 · 1:13
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
Episode 18 · 1:17
The Talents
Episode 19 · 2:56
A Farewell
Episode 20 · 1:14
An Apple Orchard in the Spring
Episode 21 · 1:51
The Bluejay
Episode 22 · 5:17
A Canadian Camping Song
Episode 23 · 1:33
The Argonauts
Episode 24 · 6:00
The Minstrel-Boy
Episode 25 · 1:21
Mary Elizabeth
Episode 26 · 17:09
The Frost
Episode 27 · 2:30
Corn-fields
Episode 28 · 2:08
South-West Wind, Esq.
Episode 29 · 11:11
The Meeting of the Waters
Episode 30 · 1:32
Love
Episode 31 · 2:03
The Robin's Song
Episode 32 · 1:25
Work or Play
Episode 33 · 7:28
Burial of Sir John Moore
Episode 34 · 2:27
The Whistle
Episode 35 · 2:15
A Canadian Boat Song
Episode 36 · 1:15
The Little Hero of Haarlem
Episode 37 · 5:42
Father William
Episode 38 · 2:41
David and Goliath
Episode 39 · 7:14
Charge of the Light Brigade
Episode 40 · 2:04
Maggie Tulliver
Episode 41 · 8:17
The Corn Song
Episode 42 · 1:48
Sports in Norman England
Episode 43 · 5:41
A Song of Canada
Episode 44 · 3:37
A Mad Tea Party
Episode 45 · 8:09
The Slave's Dream
Episode 46 · 2:58
The Chase
Episode 47 · 10:51
The Inchcape Rock
Episode 48 · 3:46
A Rough Ride
Episode 49 · 9:05
The Arab and His Steed
Episode 50 · 5:23
The Poet's Song
Episode 51 · 1:14
Adventure with a Whale
Episode 52 · 6:02
The Maple
Episode 53 · 2:11
Damon and Pythias
Episode 54 · 3:05
The Wreck of the Orpheus
Episode 55 · 1:40
The Tide River
Episode 56 · 1:39
Wisdom the Supreme Prize
Episode 57 · 1:15
The Orchard
Episode 58 · 1:05
Inspired by the Snow
Episode 59 · 3:50
The Squirrel
Episode 60 · 49s
Soldier, Rest
Episode 61 · 1:20
Fishing
Episode 62 · 6:26
The Fountain
Episode 63 · 1:05
Break, Break, Break
Episode 64 · 1:13
The Bed of Procrustes
Episode 65 · 6:56
"Bob White"
Episode 66 · 1:30
Radisson and the Indians
Episode 67 · 3:36
The Brook
Episode 68 · 2:20
"Do Seek Their Meat From God"
Episode 69 · 8:10
A Song of the Sea
Episode 70 · 1:55
Little Daffydownilly
Episode 71 · 13:32
The Sandpiper
Episode 72 · 2:22
From "The Sermon on the Mount"
Episode 73 · 2:27
The Legend of Saint Christopher
Episode 74 · 3:35
William Tell and His Son (from Chambers' 'Tracts')
Episode 75 · 4:43
A Midsummer Song
Episode 76 · 2:08
The Relief of Lucknow
Episode 77 · 5:15
The Song in Camp
Episode 78 · 2:28
Afterglow
Episode 79 · 1:24
King Richard and Salidin
Episode 80 · 7:23
England's Dead
Episode 81 · 2:54
Hohenlinden
Episode 82 · 2:07
The Dream of the Oak Tree (translator unknown)
Episode 83 · 6:06
A Prayer
Episode 84 · 1:05
The Death of the Flowers
Episode 85 · 2:40
'Tis the Last Rose of Summer
Episode 86 · 1:00
A Roman's Honour
Episode 87 · 4:02
The Fighting Téméraire
Episode 88 · 1:42
Don Quixote's Fight with the Windmills (translator unknown)