“Canada is populated largely by people who dodged being drafted in WWII”
Any males of draft age in Canada during WW2 were subject to conscription so I’m not seeing why American draft dodgers in that period would have fled to a jurisdiction where they faced even greater prospects of conscription than they did in the US.
Thanks for your response. Perhaps you are correct.
During WWII avoiding the draft by going to Canada didn’t ‘guarantee’ anything. That doesn’t mean that that many didn’t flee there. It’s not like they couldn’t easily cross the border, unidentified, and avoid not only the US draft but ‘conscription’ by Canada. So far I haven’t found any ‘estimates’ of how many tried to do this, or succeeded.
However, starting with the Civil War, and especially including the Vietnam War, many Americans fled to Canada to avoid the draft.
Thank you for helping me get the info straight.
Reference Material: http://www.answers.com/topic/draft-resistance-and-evasion