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In counter-current to the movement American draft-dodgers and deserters to Canada, about 30,000 Canadians volunteered to fight in southeast Asia.[6] Among the volunteers were fifty Mohawks from the Kahnawake reservation near Montreal.[7] One-hundred-and-ten Canadians died in Vietnam, and seven remain listed as Missing in Action. (This cross-border enlistment was not unprecedented: In both the First and the Second World War, tens of thousands of Americans had joined the Canadian forces while their homeland was still neutral. Canadian Peter C. Lemon won the U.S. Medal of Honor for his valour in the conflict.)

In Windsor, Ontario, there is a privately funded monument to the Canadians killed in the Vietnam War.[8] In Melocheville, Quebec, there is a monument site funded by the Association Québécoise des Vétérans du Vietnam.[9] However, many Canadian veterans returned to a society that was strongly anti-war. Unlike in the United States, there were no veterans organizations nor any help from the government. Many of them moved permanently to the United States. There has been ongoing pressure from Canadian Vietnam veterans to have their comrades' deaths formally acknowledged by the government, especially in times of remembrance such as Remembrance Day.