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The number of men who actively sought to evade the World War II draft in Canada is not known. Granatstein says the evasion was "widespread". [42] In addition, in 1944 alone approximately 60,000 draftees were serving only as NRMA men, committed to border defense but not to fighting abroad. [48]
The draft began in October 1940, with the first men entering military service on November 18. By the early summer of 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the U.S. Congress to extend the term of duty for the draftees beyond twelve months to a total of thirty months, plus any additional time that he might deem necessary for national security.
The World War II draft operated from 1940 until 1946 when further inductions were suspended, and its legislative authorization expired without further extension by Congress in 1947. During this time, more than 10 million men had been inducted into military service. [40] However, the Selective Service System remained intact.
Draft evasion was not a criminal offense under Canadian law. [48] The issue of deserters was more complex. Desertion from the U.S. military was not on the list of crimes for which a person could be extradited under the extradition treaty between Canada and the U.S.; [ 49 ] however, desertion was a crime in Canada, and the Canadian military ...
Proclamation 4483 and Executive Order 11967 reproduced in the Federal Register (click to view full document). Proclamation 4483, also known as the Granting Pardon for Violations of the Selective Service Act, was a presidential proclamation issued by Jimmy Carter on January 21, 1977.
[6] [7] By late 1967, draft evaders were being assisted primarily by several locally based anti-draft groups (over twenty of them), such as the Vancouver Committee to Aid American War Objectors [8] [9] and the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme. [10] [11] As a counselor for the Programme, Mark Satin wrote the Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada ...
The Conscription Crisis of 1944 was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War II. Protests against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early 1970s to a large degree dealt with the issue of conscription, particularly in the United States and Australia which conscripted troops for the war (other countries, like New Zealand ...
The story is set during the last years of the Great Depression, as the country readies itself for possible entry into World War II. It begins with two men visiting a house in Jefferson to serve a warrant for the two McCallum brothers, who have not registered for selective service (draft evasion.)