Editor's Note‪.‬

AT THE JUNE 1997 Editorial Board meeting of Labour/Le Travail I was elected editor, replacing Gregory S. Kealey, founding editor who had served the journal so well since before its first issue appeared in 1976. It was a nostalgic moment for those of us who have worked with Greg and we offered our thanks with some gifts and speeches. Many in attendance remembered the first days of the publication and what we have all gone through in the long interval stretching from the period when L/LT was an idea yet to come into being, and working-class history a field less well established and esteemed than it is today. Both the journal and the serious study of labour and social history in Canada owe a great deal to Greg. But he achieved his age of majority -- 21 years in the editor's chair, something of a record in scholarly circles in Canada I expect -- and he decided to step down, literally, into the office of the Dean of Graduate Studies at Memorial University. Greg remains active in our circles. He will continue as a member of the Editorial Board, involve himself in the Publications Committee of the Canadian Committee of Labour History, and stay on to serve as Teasurer of that body. He remains a human lifeline, along with our excellent office staff, headed by Irene Whitfield, Joan Butler, and Ronald Knowling, to Memorial University, which continues to provide much of the material sustenance upon which the journal depends, and for which many of us are especially grateful. There remains, then, considerable continuity in L/LT`s day-to-day functioning.