Northern draft dodgers look back 40 years after end of Vietnam War
Thousands of young American men came to Canada to avoid fighting in the Vietnam War. CBC Sudbury profiles two that stayed in northern Ontario.
'It wasn't the possibility of dying so much that bothered me, it was the possibility of killing'
Thousands of young American men came to Canada to avoid fighting in the Vietnam War.
There are stories of them playing in rock bands, buying farms and working in lumber camps in the region.
CBC Sudbury reporter Erik White profiled two who stayed in northern Ontario.
Mick Lowe
The 68-year-old author and journalist is well-known for telling the stories of Sudbury, but his own starts in a conservative family in Nebraska and leads to him fleeing his homeland in 1970.
Gary Fuhrman
After teaching English in Sudbury high schools for 25 years, the 70-year-old has now retired to Manitoulin Island. He says he was "born in the wrong country" and corrected that when he came to Canada as a draft dodger in 1967.