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magazine / jf08
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January/February 2008 issue |
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MOSAIC
Hollywood snowbirds
Photography by Charles Mathieu Audet
As soon as the air chills and the first snowflakes fly, tens
of thousands of snowbirds from Quebec pack their bags
and flock to Hollywood…Florida, that is. Since the
1960s, this city on the Atlantic coast, between Fort Lauderdale
and Miami, has been the state’s largest hub of Floribécois, as the
Québécois vacationers are called.
More than half a million tourists from Quebec travel to
Florida in a given year. But this year, due to the record rise of
the Canadian dollar, the annual migration is expected to turn
into a “large invasion,” says Robert Leblond, managing editor of
the Hollywood-based weekly newspaper Le Soleil de la Floride.
For the rest of this story, visit your local newsstand or go to our store to buy this issue.
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