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Visit the Haitian neighbourhood of St. Michel in Montréal-Nord and you might overhear the slow sensual rhythms of kompa music or detect a whiff of the earthy aroma of seasoned meat, rice with djondjon mushrooms and fried plantain being prepared. Tune into the local radio station and you'll hear a mixture of French and Creole. Of the 75,000 Canadians of Haitian descent, 95 percent live in Quebec, mostly in Montréal. Around the time of the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s, tens of thousands of health, education and social-service professionals came from Haiti to ½ll openings in those sectors, and since then the community has been continually renewed by new immigrants. Governor General Michaëlle Jean has roots in the community along with well-known comedian Anthony Kavanagh and novelist Dany Laferriere, whose fame began with his controversial ½rst novel Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer.

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