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January/February 2008 issue


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.

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