Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:36:06 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Oh, Canada ! !,  was  Re: New list (was Re: This list is... )
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Sorry about the top posting, but such is GroupWise when I access it from
the road.

Oddly enough, my great uncle (I think that's the relationship) went to
Canada to fight the Hun.  Somewhere there are some photos he took of the
time "over there" including one of Pershing addressing the troops.  On a
box.

mjw

>>> ronkean at juno.com 02/14/06 5:03 AM >>>

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:55:47 -0500 (EST) dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
writes:
>
...draft dodgers couldn't be
> arrested
> while in Canada: Canada didn't have a Selective Service Act -- never
> did
> have, IIRC...

Canada did not have a draft during the Vietnam War era, but Canada did
have a draft during World War I.  At the time, men resident in Canada
(including American citizens) who wished to leave Canada, even it was
just for a short visit and return, had to obtain a "Permission to leave
Canada" document.  The reason for that requirement, I think, was to
discourage people from avoiding the draft by leaving the country for the
duration of the war.

Ron Kean