Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: War Resisters in Context

1 We Help Them Because Their Need Is Great: The Canadian Anti-Draft Movement

2 Transnational Connections: US Groups and Other Canadian Groups

3 Deserters: Treatment, Tactics, Identity

4 Opening the Border: 1969

5 The Limits of Left Nationalism: The Campaign to Open the Border

6 Hegemonic Reflections: Inside and Outside the Movement

7 Last Chance to Get Landed: Immigration Department Strategies, Anti-Draft Movement Responses, 1971-73

Conclusion: A Contested Refuge from Militarism

Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Promotional Information

A long-overdue evaluation of one of our most cherished myths – that Canadians extended American war resisters a warm welcome during the Vietnam War era.

About the Author

Jessica Squires is an independent scholar of Canadian political, social, and cultural history who lives and works in Gatineau, Quebec.