. Canada, an encyclopaedia of the country [microform] : the Canadian Dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development. Agriculture; Canadian literature; Finance; Natural history; Natural resources; Agriculture; Littérature canadienne; Finances; Sciences naturelles; Ressources naturelles. rr 3-M CANADA; AN ENCYCLOPiEDIA. f eminent are, as already intinuited, those pre- sented in tlio Reports of the Inspector of Insur- ance for the Province of Ontario, from which it appears tliat risks aggrefjatinfj upwards of $200,- 000,000
. Canada, an encyclopaedia of the country [microform] : the Canadian Dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development. Agriculture; Canadian literature; Finance; Natural history; Natural resources; Agriculture; Littérature canadienne; Finances; Sciences naturelles; Ressources naturelles. rr 3-M CANADA; AN ENCYCLOPiEDIA. f eminent are, as already intinuited, those pre- sented in tlio Reports of the Inspector of Insur- ance for the Province of Ontario, from which it appears tliat risks aggrefjatinfj upwards of $200,- 000,000 are carried by some eighty-eight com- panies woriiing under Provincial licenses. These are chielly township and county mutuals, con- fining themselves almost exclusively to the insurance of farm property, although there are several mutual companies doing a general business throughout Ontario. While the statis- tics which have been quoted show that the Dominion has not proved a lucrative field of operations to fire insurance companies in the past, it may reasonably be anticii)ateil that the more substantial modes of construction now adopted in most of the leading cities and towns, as compared with those of earlier years, cotn- bmed with the improved fire appliances which are from time to time being introduced, will materially reduce the danger of serious con- fiagrations in the leadmg business centres, and thus tend towards placing the risks assumed by fire insurance companies in Canada more on an equality with those of older countries than they have been during the period when wood—owing to its cheapness—was so largely used in the construc- tion cf buildings, and inadequate fire protection was the rule rather than the exception in Cana- dian towns. '^ I y ' J;,. The Hon. George A. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfec
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