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The article presents information about various documents and reports related to insurance. The workmen's compensation act of Ontario carries no important provision not before known in the world's practice. Yet, taken all in all, it is of much more than ordinary interest. It is radical; it is the seventeenth compensation law in the British Empire; and its field is near to people, in that Canadian province, which, in an industrial way, is the most, advanced and the most closely related to this country. As other British acts, it naturally shows many influences from earlier legislation of the mother country. In organic relation to the compensation law is a new employers' liability law. In fact, the two laws are but parts of the one act, part 1 covering compensation and the brief part 2 covering liability. Neither part applies to farm laborers or domestic or menial servants or their employers; and, apparently, neither applies to the general run of public employments, but only to private industry and such industry conducted by minor public bodies as may be brought under part 1.