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Many PhD students are anxious about their job prospects upon graduation. One of the major themes involves a perception that Canadians going abroad for doctoral training are privileged in their job search when they return to Canada to look for academic work. The belief is that many sociology departments prefer to hire graduates of programs outside the country. An examination of available information regarding the number and origin of degrees for recently hired sociology professors in Canada can help address this gap and finds that Canadian departments tend to hire Canadian-trained PhDs more than not, but there are some exceptions. Beaucoup d'etudiants s'inquieent de leurs perspectives d'emploi a la fin de leurs eudes. Un de leurs soucis principaux provient de l'idee repandue chez les Canadiens qu'une formation doctorale outre-mer augmente leurs chances de trouver une position a leur retour au pays. Ils s'appuient sur la conviction que beaucoup de facultes de sociologie preierent engager des diplomes de programmes de pays etrangers. Or, l'information accessible concemant le nombre et l'origine des titres de professeurs en sociologie recemment embauches au Canada, et compte tenu d'une attention particuliere portee a cet ecart, montre que les facultes canadiennes ont tendance a recruter plus de personnel ayant obtenu un doctorat au Canada qu'a l'etranger, bien qu'il y ait quelques exceptions., HOW DO WE SUMMARIZE half a century of accomplishments by thousands of Canadian sociologists? This is a question we repeatedly asked ourselves, and one repeatedly asked by the many colleagues [...]