Canada did not officially participate in the Vietnam War. However, it contributed to peacekeeping forces in 1973 to help enforce the Paris Peace Accords.
Colonel Lorne RodenBush was Canada's representative to the International Control Commission in Vietnam from 1967– 68.
A de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou transport plane on landing approach, Vietnam War, 1971
The Canadian Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Windsor, Ontario, commemorates Canadians who died fighting alongside American forces in Vietnam.
Toronto-born Peter C. Lemon served with distinction in the U.S. Army in Vietnam.
Vietnamese boat people were refugees who fled Vietnam by sea following the 1975 fall of Saigon, which marked the end of the Vietnam War. This migration and humanitarian crisis peaked in the late 1970s
Canada and the Vietnam War
…to Canada to avoid the draft. Largely middle class and educated, they had a significant impact on Canadian life. After the war, tens of thousands of Vietnamese boat people were also admitted and became a unique part of Canadian life. During the First Indochina War between France and the Indo-Chinese nationalist and communist…
A family of Vietnamese refugees rescued by a US Navy ship
Rescued Vietnamese being given water
Stacks of refugee identification cards on Galang Refugee Camp in Indonesia, Zone D and E. There were approximately 250.000 refuges recorded on the island.
Vietnamese Boy Scouts at the Philippine First Asylum Center in Palawan (1990)