Within the next few years those of us who have been directly concerned with the first appearance of termites in the Province of Ontario will either have forgotten some of the earlier details of this introduction or wiil have passed beyond the field of such earthly considerations. The present paper has been wrinen so that those who mav be interested in the earlv history of the introduction of termites into Ontario in the years that lie ahead wll have at least one authoritative paper upon which to hase their studies or investigations.