Medical History Memorialized: The Origins and First Decade of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine (1979-94).

In 1979, the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, founded in Quebec City, Canada, in 1950, inaugurated its first official organizational organ, Newsletter/Nouvelles , which ran for 10 issues in five annual volumes. In 1984, this modest means of institutional communication expanded to become the Canadian Bulletin of the History of Medicine / Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine , a peer-reviewed journal that continues to the present. Central to the founding and operation of both publications was Kenneth B. Roberts of the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland. This discussion outlines the foundation, evolution, and activities of both these periodicals from 1979 to 1994. Their relationship to the growth of both the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and the field of medical history in Canada are also delineated.