ontario

Reta's happy life is torn apart when her eldest daughter drops out of school to sit on a street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads "goodness" and as Reta searches to find what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement, she learns important lessons about love and hope.

Captioned color photographs portray a variety of scenes, places of interest, and people of Ontario.

Grania O'Neill, a young deaf woman in Canada, is sent to the Ontario School for the Deaf, where, protected from the hearing world and her overprotective parents, she learns sign language and falls in love with a hearing man, only to have him taken from her as World War I breaks out.

When a beautiful young woman stumbles into a rough Algonquin Bay tavern covered in black fly bites, officials decide she is either dumb or high, but when they discover her behavior is due to a bullet in her brain, they attempt to learn what happened to her and who wants her dead.

Contains a narrative description of the destructive force of hurricane Hazel, which caused flooding in Ontario in October, 1954, and includes information on its effect and stories from the people who survived it. Includes facts about hurricanes, including how they form, and how they are named.

Presents an introduction to the Canadian province of Ontario, in simple text with illustrations, providing information on his history, geography, and people.

Contains parallel stories, the first of which traces the life of Groundhog Willie of Warton, Ontario, Canada, and the second which tells of the first Groundhog Day in Canada, and about groundhogs in general.

In 1916, in Uxbridge, Ontario, twelve-year-old Eliza, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, chronicles her family's experiences after her two brothers leave for Europe to fight in the war.