L’importance de l’hiver, de la nordicité dans la définition des identités québécoise et canadienne semble faire une certaine unanimité. Or, l’hiver « n’est plus ce qu’il était » : la modernisation l’a transformé, en a diminué la signification culturelle. Parmi ces transformations, la popularité du voyage hivernal en Floride chez les Canadiens, notamment les Ontariens et les Québécois, depuis les années 1950, semble désavouer un certain nationalisme fondé sur le refus de l’américanisation et sur la valorisation de la nordicité et de l’hiver.Winter travel to Florida has been hugely popular among Canadians, especially Ontarians and Québécois, since the 1950s. However this runs against Canada's identity-buildings, notably against the rejection of American mores and culture, and against the (uneasy) valuation of Northernness, of winter. Florida plays a part in this discourse on winter and northernness, and seems to be associated with conditions of consumerism and modernity. Yet the analysis of the statements about Florida yields a few unpredictable conclusions about Canadians and Québécois
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