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Warm climates, cold shoulders
Recent weeks have seen ample public attention being given to snowbirds once again. Some older Canadians have decided to go south despite the ongoing pandemic and while various travel restrictions remain in place. Snowbirds are getting vaccinated in Florida, leaving some concerned about equity as Canadians receive vaccines before Floridians.
CBC News reports on a Canadian couple receiving the coronavirus vaccine in Florida.
Many people are surely left wondering why any Canadians would actually go south this winter. For the past several years, we have been researching health-care access and health management among Canadian snowbirds who winter in Florida and Arizona.
On a small island in British Columbia s Fraser River is a campsite packed with Canadian snowbirds who found refuge when the border with the United States was shut because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unlike other years, all 118 full-service sites at Fort Camping in Langley are occupied, said Marilyn Stone, the manager of guest services at the campsite.
It started in March, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canadians around the world to come home, Stone said.
Travellers from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and B.C. came to quarantine and before they left for the summer, they booked for the winter, she said.
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With Canada-U.S. border closed, snowbirds pack B.C. campsites to wait out winter
The Canadian Camping and RV Council said at least 50,000 full-time users of RVs who usually spend their winters in the United States had to find a site north of the border. Thousands have converged on southern B.C., packing full-service campgrounds to wait out the winter, according to B.C. tourism and lodging groups.
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