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Heading South This Winter? Your Complete Checklist
Health coverage, border days, insurance and closing up the house: everything to sort out before you go.
The beach at Cobourg on Lake Ontario. Photo: Lukasz Szmigiel / Unsplash
By the Local Snowbirds Team
Every fall, Ontario snowbirds pack up and point the car south. The sunshine is the easy part. The paperwork, the insurance and the house you leave behind take a little planning.
Our checklist walks you through it one step at a time, from keeping your OHIP coverage to the new US registration rule for longer stays. Read the full checklist
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