Alberta

Discontinued in the early 1970s (was being used for health care workers)

Three communities in Alberta continue to offer BCG to newborns

British Columbia

Discontinued in the 1970s for health care workers

Discontinued in all communities in 2003

Manitoba

Discontinued in the 1970s for health care workers

Offered to infants in most communities

New Brunswick

Routine use for nursing students began in 1949; discontinued in the 1970s

Discontinued in the 1970s

Newfoundland and Labrador

Routine use for student nurses began in 1948; school programme 1951 – both discontinued 1975

Discontinued for aboriginal persons in Labrador in 1979

Northwest Territories

Routine use of the BCG vaccine began in 1954. Routine vaccination of Inuit infants living in communities where TB is endemic.  Also offered to immigrant infants whose families are from TB endemic countries

Routine vaccination of First Nations infants living in communities where TB is endemic.  Endemic TB is defined as greater than 10% infectivity (active TB and latent TB infection) or total burden of latent TB infection

Nova Scotia

Discontinued in 1979 (was being used for health care workers)

Discontinued in the 1970s

Nunavut

Vaccine offered to all newborns

Ontario

Used for some health workers prior to the 1970s

Offered only to infants in the Sioux Lookout Zone

Prince Edward Island

Discontinued in 1966 for school students and in 1976 for health care workers

Discontinued in the 1970s

Quebec

Clinical use began in Montreal in 1925 with routine use for school students beginning in 1948; discontinued in the mid-late 1970s for school students and more recently for health care students

Discontinued in all communities in 2005

Saskatchewan

Clinical use began in 1933; discontinued in 1987

Offered to infants in 23 of 65 communities plus the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA)

Yukon

Discontinued in the early 1990's