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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John Hagan. Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 269. $27.95.

John Hagan's book is a pioneering study of the more than 50,000 American war resisters and their companions who went to Canada—in this case, specifically Toronto—during the Vietnam War. This compelling volume works on many levels. It is also a book about U.S.-Canadian relations, a lively history of a so-called "American ghetto" in Toronto, and an account of a particular segment of the anti-Vietnam War movement unjustly neglected by the antiwar histories. 1

Prior to Hagan's book, no exhaustive study of American war resisters in Canada could be found. Various authors explored the topic during the war, but their studies were tentative and either journalistic or participant-memoir accounts. Lawrence Baskir and William Strauss's Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation (1978) was one of the first books to shed some light on the wartime American exodus to the north, but its treatment of the subject fell far short of the attention warranted. Since then, the topic has sporadically surfaced, mentioned here and there in various books. James Dickerson's North to Canada: Men and Women against the Vietnam War (1999) was a noble attempt to recount the story but proved too personal and narrowly focused. . . .

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