"Michel Boucher" > wrote in message
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> "Gabby" > wrote in
> :
>> More so in Québec than for French-Canadians in other parts of
>> Canada, for obvious reasons.
>
> I was speaking in a historical sense. Things have changed in the
> last fifty years or so, in New Brunswick as well as in Québec.

Oh, I realized that you were not speaking of something that happens much
today. But I'm 51 and my parents had never experienced 'étrennes du Jour de
l'An' either. As a kid, I learned about the tradition from watching
television and my parents explained it as "a Québec tradition".

Gabby