In the 1960s and ’70s, during the Vietnam War, somewhere between 30,000 और 40,000 अमेरिकियों मसौदा बचने के लिए कनाडा के लिए आया था — and many of them stayed. The न्यूयॉर्क टाइम्स recently profiled one of these expats.

माइकल वोल्फसन में कनाडा में पहुंचे 1968, after his application for conscientious objector status was rejected. के अनुसार टाइम्स, वह मसौदा बोर्ड को पत्र लिखा, saying, “The reason I did not comply with your order [to report for military service] is that I did not, on that particular day, feel like it….”

अंत में, यद्यपि, Wolfson settled down and grew up. He earned a bachelor of science degree from the टोरंटो विश्वविद्यालय and went on to receive a Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University in the U.K. आज, he has dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship and works as a senior statistician for सांख्यिकी कनाडा.

आप कर सकते हैं के बाकी पढ़ें टाइम्स यहाँ लेख. To learn more about what happened to many of the Vietnam-era draft resisters in Canada, have a look at the book, उत्तरी पारित: कनाडा में अमेरिकी वियतनाम युद्ध resisters, by sociologist जॉन Hagan.

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