In the 1960s and ’70s, during the Vietnam War, somewhere between 30,000 と 40,000 アメリカ人は徴兵を逃れるためにカナダに来た — and many of them stayed. ザ ニューヨークタイムズ recently profiled one of these expats.

マイケル·ウォルフソンは、年にカナダに到着 1968, after his application for conscientious objector status was rejected. によると タイムズ, 彼はドラフトボードに書いた, 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….”

最終的には, も, Wolfson settled down and grew up. He earned a bachelor of science degree from the トロント大学 and went on to receive a Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University in the U.K. 今日の, he has dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship and works as a senior statistician for カナダ統計局.

することができます の残りの部分を読む タイムズ ここに記事. To learn more about what happened to many of the Vietnam-era draft resisters in Canada, have a look at the book, 北航路: カナダのアメリカベトナム戦争抵抗, by sociologist ジョン·ハーガン.

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