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Two Newspaper Articles on the Nomination of the Radium Institute in the ACS list, 1930

Montage of two newspaper articles congratulating the Institute. At the top, the column is titled Our Radium Institute Abroad - It is recognized as one of the major cancer institutes in America - Badge of honor. At the bottom, the title is French Canadian Medicine and is followed by a column stating Dr. Gendreau, Director of the Montreal Radium Institute, notes that the American College of Surgeons classifies, in a recent publication, the Montreal Radium Institute among the five major cancer institutes on the American continent. The others are: Memorial Hospital, New York; New York State Cancer Institute, Buffalo; the hospitals and laboratories of Harvard University, Boston; and Barnard Institute, St. Louis, Missouri. This classification is an honor for French Canadian medicine. In this area, ours show the way to all other universities in Canada.

(Top) Le Canada, November 19, 1930 (Bottom) Le Droit, November 21, 1930

The nomination of the Radium Institute in the prestigious list of the American College of Surgeons is a great source of pride for the French-Canadian press.