Canada
did not officially participate in the
Vietnam War
. However, it contributed to peacekeeping forces in 1973 to help enforce the
Paris Peace Accords
.
[1]
Privately, some Canadians contributed to the war effort. Canadian corporations sold
war material
to the U.S. government. In addition, at least 30,000 Canadians
volunteered
to serve in the U.S. armed forces during the war. At least 134 Canadians died or were reported missing in Vietnam.
[2]
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of U.S. Vietnam War resisters emigrated to Canada to
avoid the draft
. Largely middle class and educated, they had a significant impact on Canadian life.
[3]
After the war, tens of thousands of
Vietnamese boat people
were also admitted and became a unique part of Canadian life.
[4]
Beginnings
[
edit
]
During the
First Indochina War
between France and the Indo-Chinese nationalist and communist parties, Canada remained militarily neutral but provided modest diplomatic and economic support to the French. Canada was, however, part of the
International Control Commission
(along with Poland and India) that oversaw the
1954 Geneva Agreements
that divided Vietnam, provided for French withdrawal, and would have instituted elections for reunification by 1956. Behind the scenes, Canadian diplomats tried to discourage both France and the United States from escalating the conflict in a part of the world Canada had decided was not strategically vital.
[
citation needed
]
Canada laid out six prerequisites to joining a war effort or Asian alliance like
SEATO
:
- It had to involve cultural and trade connections in addition to a military alliance.
- It had to demonstrably meet the will of the people in the countries involved.
- Other free Asian states had to support it directly or in principle.
- France had to refer the conflict to the United Nations organization.
- Any multilateral action must conform to the
UN charter
.
- Any action had to be divorced from all elements of
colonialism
.
[
citation needed
]
These criteria effectively guaranteed Canada would not participate in the Vietnam War.
Canadian involvement in the war
[
edit
]
At the start of the Vietnam War, Canada was a member of the
International Control Commission
(ICC) overseeing the implementation of the Geneva Agreements, and thus attempted to maintain an air of neutrality. However, the Canadian negotiators were strongly on the side of the U.S. One representative (
J. Blair Seaborn
, younger brother of
Robert Seaborn
) was even involved in secretly exchanging messages between the U.S. and North Vietnam on behalf of the U.S., with the approval of the Canadian government. Canada also sent foreign aid to South Vietnam, which, while humanitarian, was directed by the U.S.
[6]
Canada tried to mediate between the warring countries, aiming for a conclusion that could allow the U.S. to leave the conflict honourably. It has also been commonly believed, as reported at the time, that the Canadian government of Prime Minister
Lester Pearson
publicly criticized U.S. war methods.
[
citation needed
]
Yet, the text of a speech which Pearson delivered at
Temple University
in Philadelphia on April 2, 1965 has debunked this widespread rumor, with Pearson even stating "The government and great majority of people of my country have supported wholeheartedly the US peacekeeping and peacemaking policies in Vietnam."
[7]
[8]
[9]
Meanwhile, Canadian industry exported military supplies and raw materials useful in their manufacture, including ammunition,
napalm
and
Agent Orange
,
[10]
to the United States, as trade between the two countries continued without interruption or hindrance.
"500 firms sold $2.5 billion of war materials (ammunition, napalm, aircraft engines and explosives) to the Pentagon. Another $10 billion in food, beverages, berets and boots for the troops was exported to the U.S., as well as nickel, copper, lead, oil, brass for shell casings, wiring, plate armour and military transport. In Canada unemployment fell to record low levels of 3.9%".
[6]
Although these exports were sales by Canadian firms, not gifts from the Canadian government, they nonetheless benefited the U.S. war effort. The first official statement about the Canadian economic support given to the United States armed forces was by Lester Pearson on March 10, 1967, when he stated that the export of goods to Canada's southern ally was "necessary and logical" due to the extreme integration of both economies, and that an embargo would be a notice of withdrawal from North American defense arrangements.
[11]
As the war escalated, however, relations between Canada and the United States gradually deteriorated. In his Temple University speech, while stating firm support for U.S. policy, Pearson also called for a pause in the bombing of North Vietnam. In a perhaps apocryphal story, when a furious
President
Lyndon B. Johnson
met with Pearson the next day, he grabbed the much smaller Canadian by his lapels and talked angrily with him for an hour. After this incident, the two men somehow found ways to resolve their differences over the war and had further contacts, including later twice meeting in Canada.
[12]
With the federal elections of 1968, which brought Pierre Trudeau to the prime ministry, Canadian policy changed radically to one of unrelenting criticism of U.S. policy in Vietnam. Trudeau called for immediate negotiations between the U.S. and North Vietnam and offered on at least one occasion to serve as mediator in the negotiations, annoying President Richard Nixon, who succeeded Lyndon Johnson after his own election to the U.S. presidency in 1968.
Assistance to the U.S. war effort
[
edit
]
Canada's official diplomatic position in relation to the Vietnam War was that of a non-belligerent, which imposed a ban on the export of war-related items to the combat areas.
[
citation needed
]
Nonetheless, Canadian industry was also a major supplier of equipment and supplies to the U.S. forces, not sending these directly to
South Vietnam
but to the United States. The goods included relatively benign items like boots, but also aircraft, munitions, napalm, and commercial
defoliants
, the use of which was fiercely opposed by anti-war protesters at the time.
In accordance with the 1956
[13]
Defence Production Sharing Agreement
, Canadian industry sold $2.47 billion in materiel to the United States between 1965 and 1973.
[10]
Many of the companies were owned by US parent firms, but all export sales over $100,000 US (and thus, the majority of contracts) were arranged through the
Canadian Commercial Corporation
, a
crown corporation
which functioned as an intermediary between the
United States Department of Defense
and Canadian industry.
[10]
In some cases Canadian defence contractors were even sent to the theatre of war to undertake company work, such as when
de Havilland Canada
sent mobile repair teams from the
Downsview, Toronto
plant to complete depot-level repair of battle-damaged
de Havilland Caribou
aircraft that were owned and operated by the U.S. Army. Furthermore, the
Canadian
and the
American Defence departments
worked together to test chemical defoliants for use in Vietnam, a collaboration only revealed to the public in 1981.
[14]
Canada also allowed their
NATO
ally to use Canadian facilities and bases for training exercises and weapons testing as per existing treaties.
Between January 28, 1973 and July 31, 1973, Canada provided 240 peacekeeping troops to
Operation Gallant
, the peacekeeping operation associated with the
International Commission of Control and Supervision
(ICCS) Vietnam, along with
Hungary
, Indonesia, and
Poland
.
[15]
Their role was to monitor the cease-fire in South Vietnam per the
Paris Peace Accords
.
[16]
After Canada's departure from the Commission, it was replaced by
Iran
.
Canadians in the U.S. armed forces
[
edit
]
In a counter-current to the movement of U.S. draft evaders and deserters to Canada, about 30,000 Canadians volunteered to fight for the U.S. in Southeast Asia.
[17]
Among the volunteers were 50
Mohawks
from the
Kahnawake reserve
near Montreal.
[18]
U.S. Army
Sergeant
Peter C. Lemon
, an
immigrant
from Canada, was awarded the U.S.
Medal of Honor
for his valour in the conflict. This cross-border enlistment was not unprecedented: Both the
First
and the
Second World War
saw thousands of Americans join the Canadian Armed Forces before the U.S officially declared war on Germany.
[19]
In 2015, the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(CBC) produced a story remembering the Canadians who fought and died in the war.
[2]
According to that story, a Canadian veterans association estimates that 20,000 Canadians enlisted in the U.S. armed forces to fight alongside the Americans, while some historians put the number as high as 40,000.
[2]
Of these, an estimated 12,000 saw combat in Vietnam, and at least 134 were killed or declared
missing in action
.
[2]
The 2015 CBC story paid special attention to Rob McSorley, a teen-age Army Ranger from Vancouver who was shot dead by North Vietnamese soldiers.
[2]
Other Canadians who gave their lives and were recognized in the story include:
In Windsor, Ontario, there is a privately funded monument to the Canadians killed in the Vietnam War.
[20]
In
Melocheville, Quebec
, there is a monument dating from October 1989 funded by the Association Quebecoise des Veterans du Vietnam.
[21]
U.S. war resisters in Canada
[
edit
]
U.S.
draft evaders
(often referred to by the disparaging term "draft dodgers") and military
deserters
who sought refuge in Canada during the Vietnam War would ignite controversy among those seeking to immigrate to Canada, some of it provoked by the Canadian government's initial refusal to admit those who could not prove they had been discharged from U.S. military service. This changed in 1968 with the installment of Pierre Trudeau as prime minister.
[22]
On May 22, 1969, Ottawa announced that Canadian immigration officials could not ask about immigration applicants' military status if they appeared at the border seeking permanent residence in Canada.
[23]
According to Valerie Knowles, draft evaders were usually college-educated sons of the middle class who could no longer defer induction into the
Selective Service System
. Deserters, on the other hand, were predominantly sons of the lower-middle and working classes who had been inducted into the armed services directly from high school or who had volunteered, hoping to obtain a skill and broaden their opportunities.
[22]
Starting in 1965, Canada became a choice haven for U.S. draft evaders and deserters. Because they were not formally classified as refugees but admitted as immigrants, there is no official estimate of how many draft evaders and deserters entered Canada during the Vietnam War. One informed estimate puts their number between 30,000 and 40,000.
[22]
Whether or not this estimate is accurate, the fact remains that emigration from the United States was high as long as the U.S. was participating in the war militarily and maintained compulsory military service. In 1971-72, Canada received more immigrants from the United States than from any other country.
[22]
Draft evaders
[
edit
]
Estimates vary greatly as to how many males from the U.S. settled in Canada for the specific reason of dodging the draft or "evading
conscription
," as opposed to desertion, or other reasons. Canadian immigration statistics show that 20,000 to 30,000 draft-eligible males from the U.S. came to Canada as immigrants during the Vietnam era. The
BBC
has reported that "as many as 60,000 young American men dodged the draft."
[24]
Estimates of the total number of U.S. citizens who moved to Canada due to their opposition to the war range from 50,000 to 125,000
[25]
This exodus was "the largest politically motivated migration from the United States since the
United Empire Loyalists
moved north to oppose the
American Revolution
."
[26]
Major communities of war resisters formed in Montreal, the
Slocan Valley
, British Columbia, and on
Baldwin Street
in
Toronto
, Ontario.
[
citation needed
]
They were at first assisted by the Student Union for Peace Action, a campus-based Canadian anti-war organization with connections to
Students for a Democratic Society
in the U.S.
[27]
[28]
Canadian immigration policy at the time made it easy for immigrants from all countries to obtain legal status in Canada.
[29]
By late 1967, draft evaders were being assisted primarily by several locally based anti-draft organizations (over twenty of them), such as the Vancouver Committee to Aid American War Objectors
[30]
[31]
and the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme.
[32]
[33]
As a counselor for the Programme,
Mark Satin
wrote the
Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada
in 1968.
[34]
[35]
It sold nearly 100,000 copies overall.
[36]
[3]
In 1970, Canadian singer
Gordon Lightfoot
recorded his song "
Sit Down Young Stranger
" to express his views on Canada's acceptance of American draft evaders.
[
citation needed
]
The influx of these young men, who, as mentioned earlier, were often well educated
[22]
[37]
[38]
and politically leftist, affected Canada's academic and cultural institutions, and Canadian society at large. These new arrivals tended to balance the "
brain drain
" that Canada had experienced. While some draft evaders returned to the United States after a
pardon
was declared in 1977 during the presidential administration of
Jimmy Carter
, roughly half of them stayed in Canada.
[39]
Prominent draft evaders who stayed in Canada permanently, or for a significant amount of time, have included:
Deserters
[
edit
]
Distinct from draft resisters, there were also deserters from the U.S. armed forces who also made their way to Canada. There was pressure from both the United States and Canada for the deserters to be arrested, or at least stopped at the border.
[
citation needed
]
The deserters have not been pardoned and may still face
pro forma
arrest, as the case of Allen Abney demonstrated in March 2006.
[42]
[43]
Another similar case was that of Richard Allen Shields: He had deserted the U.S. Army in Alaska in 1972 after serving a year in Vietnam. Twenty-eight years later, on March 22, 2000, while he attempted to drive a lumber truck across the US-Canada border (in Metaline Falls, Washington) he was arrested by U.S. Customs agents and jailed at
Fort Sill
.
He was discharged from the Army with an Other Than Honorable discharge in April 2000.
[
citation needed
]
Other noteworthy deserters from that era include the following:
- Andy Barrie
- former host of
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Radio's
Metro Morning
in
Toronto
[23]
[38]
(He later received a General discharge from the United States Army, became a
Canadian
citizen, and is free to travel to the U.S.)
- Dick Cotterill
[38]
- Michael Shaffer: "After six months in the Army, my application for CO status was denied and I was told that I would be going to Vietnam. I refused to draw my weapon and was ordered court-martialed. On Labour Day 1970 I was able to escape and cross into Canada ... During
President Ford's Clemency Program
in 1975, I went to Fort Dix seeking the "Undesirable Discharge" offered to deserters who turned themselves in. The Army decided that I wasn't eligible and court-martial proceedings were resumed. With help from the ACLU, I was released and two years later a Federal Court ordered the Army to discharge me Honourably as a Conscientious Objector ... I remained in Vancouver"
[38]
- Jack Todd
? award-winning sports columnist for the
Montreal Gazette
- Mike Tulley -
Edmonton
, Alberta area sound engineer and social activist
[44]
Missing-text controversy
[
edit
]
In February 2009, text on how both draft evaders and resisters of the Vietnam War were ultimately allowed to stay in Canada suddenly vanished from the website of the
Department of Citizenship and Immigration
Canada
."
[37]
[45]
Originally, the
Government of Canada
website had contained the following statements:
... Starting in 1965, Canada became a choice haven for American draft resisters and deserters, ... Although some of these transplanted Americans returned home after the Vietnam War, most of them put down roots in Canada, making up the largest, best-educated group this country had ever received.
[37]
The above statement (now gone from the website) was part of an extensive online chapter on draft resisters and deserters from the Vietnam war, which was found in the larger online document,"Forging Our Legacy: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900?1977"
[22]
It was originally posted on the
Government of Canada
website in the year 2000, when the
Liberal Party of Canada
, led by
Jean Chretien
, was in power and responsible for the content of that website but in 2009,
the Ministry
of
Stephen Harper
[took] "a much dimmer view of
dozens of U.S. soldiers who've come north after refusing to serve
in
the invasion of Iraq
. Some had already been
deported to face military jail terms ranging from about six to 15 months
."
[37]
The removal from the
Citizenship and Immigration
website occurred in the same month that its multi-party counterpart, the
Standing Committee
on
Citizenship and Immigration
was debating that issue: On February 12, 2009, that multi-party committee passed, for the second time, a
non-binding motion
reaffirming Parliament's earlier (June 2008) vote which recommended that the government let
Iraq War resisters
stay in Canada.
[46]
A month and a half later, on March 30, 2009, the
House of Commons of Canada
again voted in a non-binding
motion
129 to 125 in favour of the committee's recommendation.
[47]
[48]
After the war
[
edit
]
The Vietnam War continued to resonate in Canada long after the war was over.
Vietnamese boat people
[
edit
]
After the
fall of South Vietnam
in April 1975, hundreds of thousands of refugees, called
boat people
, fled Vietnam and adjacent nations. According to Canadian immigration historian Valerie Knowles, from 1979 to 1980 Canada admitted an estimated 60,000 of these refugees, "most of whom had endured several days in small, leaky boats, prey to vicious pirate attacks, before ending up in squalid camps".
[4]
Knowles says it was the highest number of boat people accepted by any nation, including the United States, during that period.
[4]
The boat people constituted 25% of all newcomers admitted to Canada from 1978 to 1981.
[4]
This created a substantial Vietnamese community in Canada, concentrated especially in
Montreal
,
Vancouver
, and
Toronto
.
[
citation needed
]
Cultural and political shifts
[
edit
]
The Vietnam War was an important cultural turning point in Canada. Coupled with
Canada's centenary
in 1967 and the success of
Expo 67
, Canada became far more independent and nationalistic. The public, if not their representatives in parliament, became more willing to oppose the United States and to move in a different direction socially and politically.
[49]
Agent Orange in New Brunswick
[
edit
]
In 1981, a government report revealed that
Agent Orange
, the controversial defoliant, had been tested at
CFB Gagetown
, New Brunswick.
[50]
[51]
In June 1966, the chemical was sprayed over nearly
600 acres (2.4 km
2
)
of forest inside the base. There are differing opinions about the level of toxicity of the site;
[52]
but, in 2006, the Canadian government said it planned to compensate some of those who were exposed. As of 2011, some claims have been paid but the administration of the compensation program has been criticized.
[53]
[54]
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Further reading
[
edit
]
- McGill, Robert.
War Is Here: The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature
(McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017)
online book review
- Ross, Douglas A.
In the Interests of Peace: Canada and Vietnam, 1954?1973
, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
ISBN
978-0-8020-5632-0
.
- Squires, Jessica.
Building Sanctuary: The Movement to Support Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, 1965?1973
, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013.
ISBN
978-0-7748-2524-5
.
- Forging Our Legacy: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900?1977
, by Valerie Knowles. Ottawa: Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2000.
ISBN
978-0-662-28983-8
.
- I Volunteered: Canadian Vietnam Vets Remember
, by Tracey Arial. Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer Publishing, 1998.
ISBN
978-1-896239-14-9
.
- Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada
, by Mark Satin. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, "A List" reprint edition, 2017, orig. 1968. New introduction by Canadian historian
James Laxer
, new afterword by Satin ("Bringing Draft Dodgers to Canada in the 1960s").
ISBN
978-1-4870-0289-3
.
- The New Exiles: American War Resisters in Canada
, by Roger Neville Williams. New York: Liveright Publishers, 1970. Includes transcripts of interviews with resisters.
ISBN
978-0-87140-533-3
.
- Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada
, by John Hagan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
ISBN
978-0-674-00471-9
.
- Quiet Complicity: Canadian Involvement in the Vietnam War
, by Victor Levant. Foreword by Gwynne Dyer. Toronto: Between the Lines Books, 1987.
ISBN
978-0-919946-72-9
.
- Snow Job: Canada, the United States, and Vietnam (1954?1973)
, by Charles Taylor. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1974.
ISBN
978-0-88784-619-9
.
- Strangers at Our Gates: Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-2015
, by Valerie Knowles. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 4th ed., 2016, p. 214 ("Draft-Age Americans in Canada" section). Incorporates and updates parts of the Knowles booklet cited in this article.
ISBN
978-1-4597-3285-8
.
- Unknown Warriors: Canadians in the Vietnam War
, by Fred Gaffen. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1990.
ISBN
978-1-55002-073-1
.
- "
Vietnam War
", by Victor Levant. On the
Canadian Encyclopedia
website. Accessed 14 December 2012.
- War Is Here: The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature
, by Robert McGill. Kingston, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
ISBN
978-0-7735-5159-6
.
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