Excerpt from Labour Legislation in Canada: As Existing December 31, 1915 The present volume, which is intended to form what may be termed the base of a series of reports on Labour Legislation in Canada, contains the text of the labour laws of the Dominion and provinces as existing at the end of 1915: It is proposed that the subject shall he kept up to date by annual reports, each with a cumulative index, and that at the end of given periods consolidations similar to the present shall appear in a single volume. The first annual report, that covering the legislation for 1916, appeared in 1917, and the report for the year 1917 was published during the summer of 1918. The material for the present volume has been selected from the latest Revised Statutes, from the subsequent yearly volumes of statutes up to the end of 1915, and in the case of Quebec from the Civil Code and the Code of Civil Procedure. For Alberta it was necessary to use the Consolidated Ordinances of the Northwest Territories, 1898, and the annual volumes of Ordinances up to 1906, as no Revised Statutes of Alberta have been published since the establishment of that province in 1905. The laws are arranged according to the chapter numbers within each year. For convenience, however, amending acts have been consolidated with the statutes which they amend, except in one or two instances whore the form of the amendment rendered consolidation impracticable. The words "with amendment" or "with amendments" immediately after the chapter number direct attention to the consolidation and a reference to the amending act follows each amended section. The Quebec statutes differ in form somewhat from those of the other provinces. The Revised Statutes of 1909 contain articles numbered continuously from beginning to end, and most of the statutes enacted from 1909 to 1915 are in the form of additional articles to be inserted in the Revised Statutes even when the legislation relates to new subjects. These articles when reproduced in this volume have been assigned to their proper places in the Revised Statutes and a reference to the year of enactment has been placed after each new or amended article. In citing references throughout the report dates have been used rather than sessional numbers. Explanatory words or sentences inserted in the text by the Department are enclosed in square brackets. Since the Labour Legislation reports for 1916 and 1917 are now available, statutes in existence at the end of 1915 but which were repealed or were replaced by new legislation during either of those years are not printed in this volume, but a note inserted in place of the statute in each instance refers the reader to the later legislation. A few sections which were inadvertently omitted from the 1916 report have been embodied in this volume. The forms and schedules annexed to various Acts have not been printed except in a few cases, such as the lists of factories within the scope of the Factories Acts, the schedules of industries and of industrial diseases under Workmen's Compensation Acts, and the prescribed forms for the reporting of accidents under these and other acts. Certain labour laws authorize the enactment by Order in Council or by departmental head of rules and regulations, chiefly for administrative purposes. It is impossible to include the text of such regulations in the present report, but footnotes indicate when any regulations have been issued. The regulations in force under the Quebec Mining and Factory Acts, however, correspond so closely to certain sections in the Mining and Factory Acts of other provinces that it was thought ad visa lie to print these particular regulations in full. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

Reports for 1951, 1920, 1928, are consolidated reports containing text of labour laws in force.