"American draft dodgers in Canada were far outnumbered by the young Canadians who joined U.S. forces to fight in Vietnam."
From the The illustrated History of Canada (thanks to Joe Martin for the pointer).
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Um, you might want to look into this one a bit more carefully. The claim seems to me totally unbelievable. I don't have the book handy, but if the quote is in there it must mean something other than what it appears to mean.
The low-end estimate of the number of draft dodgers to come to Canada during the Vietnam conflict was 50,000. So are we supposed to believe that well over 50,000 Canadians joined the U.S. military to fight in Vietnam? At the peak of the war, there were only 500,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam.
According the the U.S. national archives, only 56 Canadians appear to have died in the Vietnam war while serving in the U.S. military.
(http://www.archives.gov/research/vietnam-war/casualty-lists/state-level-by-town.html) So either we were really lucky, or we constituted somewhat less than 10% of the fighting personnel.
Welcome to Canada, btw.
E - Thanks for the welcome. This comes directly from Joe Martin a very senior Canadian historian who told me he personally vouches for the study and the numbers.