Canada and the Vietnam War
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.
Conscription evasion or draft evasion is any successful attempt to elude a government-imposed obligation to serve in the military forces of one's nation. Sometimes draft evasion involves refusing to comply with the military draft laws of one's nation. Illegal draft evasion is said to have characterized every military conflict of the 20th and 21st centuries, in which at least one party of such conflict has enforced conscription. Such evasion is generally considered to be a criminal offense, and laws against it go back thousands of years.
Anti-draft meeting held by women in New York City, 1917
US Secretary of War Newton Baker drawing the first number in the World War I draft lottery, 1917
Tribunal for conscientious objectors in Britain during World War II
Muhammad Ali refused induction in 1967.
