VIETNAM WAR RESISTERS WELCOME: EDMONTON'S ALEXANDER ROSS SOCIETY

Bartels offers information on the Alexander Ross Society, which is a group in Edmonton, Canada that provided assistance to many Vietnam war resisters. Founded in 1967 by a group of Edmontonians, the Alexander Ross Society was named after Alexander Ross, a Canadian doctor and Quaker from Ontario who helped enslaved people in the US escape to Canada before the US Civil War. Ross' legacy involved helping people to escape from the US to Canada, and organizers decided that the society should be named for him. Members of the Society, like many Vietnam war resisters, saw French, and, later, US military involvement in Vietnam as preventing Vietnamese from choosing the kind of government and society that they wanted.