In the 1960s and ’70s, during the Vietnam War, somewhere between 30,000 및 40,000 미국인들은 초안을 탈출하기 위해 캐나다에 온 — and many of them stayed. The 뉴욕 타임즈 recently profiled one of these expats.

마이클 Wolfson 안으로 캐나다에 도착 1968, after his application for conscientious objector status was rejected. 에 따르면 시대, 그는 드래프트 보드에 썼다, 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….”

결국, 그래도, Wolfson settled down and grew up. He earned a bachelor of science degree from the 토론토 대학교 and went on to receive a Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University in the U.K. 오늘, he has dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship and works as a senior statistician for 통계 캐나다.

넌 할 수 의 나머지 부분을 읽어 시대 여기 기사. To learn more about what happened to many of the Vietnam-era draft resisters in Canada, have a look at the book, 북방 항로: 미국의 베트남 전쟁은 캐나다에서 Resisters, by sociologist 존 헤이건.

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