Northern draft dodgers look back 40 years after end of Vietnam War

Thousands of young American men came to Canada to avoid fighting in the Vietnam War.

There are stories of them playing in rock bands, buying farms and working in lumber camps in the region.

CBC Sudbury reporter Erik Whiteprofiledtwo who stayed in northern Ontario.

Mick Lowe

The 68-year-old author and journalist is well-known for telling the stories of Sudbury, but his own starts in a conservative family in Nebraska and leads to him fleeing his homeland in 1970.

Gary Fuhrman

After teaching English in Sudbury high schools for 25 years, the 70-year-old has now retired to Manitoulin Island. He says he was "born in the wrong country" and corrected that when he came to Canada as a draft dodger in 1967.