Vietnam War resisters in Canada were Americans who did not wish to serve in the Vietnam War by seeking political asylum in Canada between 1965 and 1975. They were typically college-educated and middle
Street door to the office of the Student Union for Peace Action's Anti-Draft Programme, on busy Spadina Avenue in Toronto, August 1967.
Michael Hendricks (right) is an American draft evader who became a prominent gay rights activist in Canada.
Vietnam War resisters in Sweden were Americans who fled to Sweden to avoid service in the Vietnam War between 1967 and 1973. Among the roughly 1,000 American exiles were around 800 military deserters
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme demonstrates side by side with the North Vietnamese Moscow ambassador Nguyễn Thọ Chân protesting the war in Vietnam.