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Author : Kenneth Fred Emerick
Publisher : Knox, Pa.: Knox, Pennsylvania Free Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013346195
Author : Jessica Squires
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774825269
Canada enjoys a reputation as a peaceable kingdom and a refuge from militarism.Yet Canadians during the Vietnam War era met American war resisters not with open arms but with political obstacles and public resistance, and the border remained closed to what were then called “draft dodgers” and “deserters.” Between 1965 and 1973, a small but active cadre of Canadian antiwar groups and peace activists launched campaigns to open the border. Jessica Squires tells their story, often in their own words. Interviews and government documents reveal that although these groups ultimately met with success – in the process shaping Canadian identity and Canada’s relationship with the United States – they had to overcome state surveillance and resistance from police, politicians, and bureaucrats. Building Sanctuary not only brings to light overlooked links between the anti-draft movement and Canadian immigration policy – it challenges cherished notions about Canadian identity and Canada in the 1960s.
Author : Jessica Squires
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774825276
Canada enjoys a reputation as a peaceable kingdom and a refuge from militarism.Yet Canadians during the Vietnam War era met American war resisters not with open arms but with political obstacles and public resistance, and the border remained closed to what were then called “draft dodgers” and “deserters.” Between 1965 and 1973, a small but active cadre of Canadian antiwar groups and peace activists launched campaigns to open the border. Jessica Squires tells their story, often in their own words. Interviews and government documents reveal that although these groups ultimately met with success – in the process shaping Canadian identity and Canada’s relationship with the United States – they had to overcome state surveillance and resistance from police, politicians, and bureaucrats. Building Sanctuary not only brings to light overlooked links between the anti-draft movement and Canadian immigration policy – it challenges cherished notions about Canadian identity and Canada in the 1960s.
Author : John Hagan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674004719
More than 50,000 Americans migrated to Canada during the Vietnam War. Hagan, himself a member of the exodus, searched declassified government files, consulted previously unopened resistance organization archives and contemporary oral histories, and interviewed American war resisters settled in Toronto to learn how they made the momentous decision.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091213320
In February 2004 the first of many U.S. soldiers came to Canada, seeking sanctuary after saying "no" to the war on Iraq. Unlike the Vietnam War when over 40,000 draft dodgers and military deserters successfully struggled to make Canada their home, this new generation of war resisters has been denied refuge by the Canadian government. Now they fight a battle they could not have predicted: to make their home in a country that publicly refused to join the Iraq War and that continues to deport them. Let Them Stay is a book of oral histories, public statements and personal narratives by these soldiers of conscience and their supporters. Collected together for the first time are the declarations of a dozen war resisters, alongside important documents in the legal and political campaign to prevent their deportation to military prison in the U.S. The anthology includes essays and updates by Rachel Brett, Lawrence Hill, Staughton Lynd, Alyssa Manning, Patricia Molloy, Noah Richler, Michelle Robidoux and Michael Valpy.
Author : Roger Neville Williams
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 087140057X
Author : Lara Campbell,Michael Dawson ,Catherine Gidney
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771131797
Historians, veterans, museums, and public education campaigns have all documented and commemorated the experience of Canadians in times of war. But Canada also has a long, rich, and important historical tradition of resistance to both war and militarization. This collection brings together the work of sixteen scholars on the history of war resistance. Together they explore resistance to specific wars (including the South African War, the First and Second World Wars, and Vietnam), the ideology and nature of resistance (national, ethical, political, spiritual), and organized activism against militarization (such as cadet training, the Cold War, and nuclear arms). As the federal government continues to support the commemoration and celebration of Canada’s participation in past wars, this collection offers a timely response that explores the complexity of Canada’s position in times of war and the role of social movements in challenging the militarization of Canadian society.
Author : Sarah J. Grünendahl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783658378400
When U.S. war resisters turned to Canada as refuge during the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan/Iraq Wars, they not only hoped to forestall deployment to a combat zone but also to build new lives and make a new home abroad. In her empirical study, Sarah J. Grünendahl explores and juxtaposes how well the two war resister 'generations' have been able to establish themselves after all and to what extent they partake in Canadian society. The comparison is instructive for migration and refugee studies altogether: The war resisters in the sample, unlike many other migrant populations, did not have to contend with language and cultural barriers in their destination country, given similarities between the United States and Canada. Sarah J. Grünendahl's research thus allows for an analysis of the effects of residency on migrants' adaptation and participation in the receiving society, isolated from these two common barriers. Further, the study sheds light on how refugees and non-citizens can employ civic engagement to claim a place for themselves and overcome societal exclusion.
Author : Keneth Fred Emerick,Charles Owen Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:249812330
Author : Alan Haig-Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020504903
Here, 20 American Vietnam War draft resisters, deserters, and conscientious objectors tell us what Canada means to them. Their harrowing stories recount the challenges and rewards of adapting to a new land, where, after more than twenty years, they have all contributed to Canadian culture and society."The most valuable contribution...remains the insights of its twenty subjects into their individual decisions to choose exile over fighting in a war they judged to be wrong or immoral - Globe and Mail.
Author : Kathleen Rodgers
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774827362
Between 1965 and 1975, thousands of American migrants traded their established lives for a new beginning in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. Some were non-violent resisters who opposed the war in Vietnam. But a larger group was inspired by the ideals of the 1960s counterculture and the New Left and, hoping to flee the restrictive demands of their parents’ world and the pressures of city life, they set out to build a peaceful, egalitarian society in the Canadian wilderness. Even today, their success is evident, as values like equality, sustainability, and creativity still define community life. This fascinating history draws on interviews and archival records to explore the root causes of this bold migration and its role in creating a region that continues to be a hotbed of social and environmental experimentation. Welcome to Resisterville is both an important look at an untold chapter in Canadian history and a compelling story of enduring idealism.
Author : Mark Satin
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487002909
In print for the first time since 1971, Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada has once again become relevant in a time of major political upheaval in the United States of America. First published in 1968 by House of Anansi Press, the Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada was a handbook for Americans who refused to serve as draftees in the Vietnam War and were considering immigrating to Canada. Conceived as a practical guide with information on the process, the Manual also features information on aspects of Canadian society, touching on topics like history, politics, culture, geography and climate, jobs, housing, and universities. The Manual went through several editions from 1968–71. Today, as Americans are taking up the discussion of immigration to Canada once again, it is an invaluable record of a moment in our recent history.
Author : John Boyko
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735278028
Forty-five years after the fall of Saigon, John Boyko brings to light the little-known story of Canada's involvement in the American War in Vietnam. Through the lens of six remarkable people, some well-known, others obscure, bestselling historian John Boyko recounts Canada's often-overlooked involvement in that conflict as peacemaker, combatant, and provider of weapons and sanctuary. When Brigadier General Sherwood Lett arrived in Vietnam over a decade before American troops, he and the Canadians under his command risked their lives trying to enforce an unstable peace while questioning whether they were merely handmaidens to a new war. As American battleships steamed across the Pacific, Canadian diplomat Blair Seaborn was meeting secretly in Hanoi with North Vietnam’s prime minister; if American leaders accepted his roadmap to peace, those ships could be turned around before war began. Claire Culhane worked in a Canadian hospital in Vietnam and then returned home to implore Canadians to stop supporting what she deemed an immoral war. Joe Erickson was among 30,000 young Americans who changed Canada by evading the draft and heading north; Doug Carey was one of the 20,000 Canadians who enlisted with the American forces to serve in Vietnam. Rebecca Trinh fled Saigon with her husband and young daughters, joining the waves of desperate Indochinese refugees, thousands of whom were to forge new lives in Canada. Through these wide-ranging and fascinating accounts, Boyko exposes what he calls the Devil’s wiliest trick: convincing leaders that war is desirable, persuading the public that it is acceptable, and telling combatants that the deeds they carry out and the horrors they experience are normal, or at least necessary. In uncovering Canada’s side of the story, Boyko reveals the many secret and forgotten ways that Canada not only fought the war but was forever shaped by its lessons and lies.
Author : Sarah Hipworth,Luke Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1771801085
Presents the history of U.S. soldiers, who came to Canada, seeking sanctuary after saying "no" to the war on Iraq.
Author : James Dickerson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0275962113
The story of an estimated half-million American men and women who went to Canada as a result of their opposition to the Vietnam War, this book, which focuses on those who remained in Canada, offers a resister's eye view of the most traumatic war in American history.
