Sugar Shack

• Sugar time: Quebec maple syrup producers have high hopes for a sweet season

  Quebec maple syrup producers are banking on a sweet syrup season, as many are beginning to tap their trees early.

  Canada

  Feb 24, 2024
  
• Quebec sugar shack owners say the COVID-19 pandemic saved the iconic industry

  Sugar shack owners across Quebec are reopening their dining rooms for the first time in two years and are crediting the novel coronavirus with revitalizing their industry.

  Canada

  Mar 13, 2022
  
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• Quebec sugar shacks hope to stay afloat by bringing traditional eats to your home

  Hard hit by the pandemic, 70 sugar shacks usually competing have joined forces to carry out the 'Ma cabane a la maison' project.

  Canada

  Feb 22, 2021
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• Ottawa fire crews douse early morning flames at Vanier Sugar Shack

  Fire crews arrived quickly Thursday morning to extinguish flames spotted on the roof of the Vanier Sugar Shack.

  Canada

  Aug 27, 2020
• Coronavirus: Sugar Shack owner left devastated by season’s early finish

  In the 42 years Pierre Faucher has run Sucrerie de la Montagne, he's never had to close- not even during the ice storm.

  Economy

  Apr 5, 2020
• Maple syrup season off to a good start in Prince Edward County

  It may still be winter, but the maple syrup season is officially underway in eastern Ontario.

  Canada

  Mar 3, 2020
• Sugar shacks, once a vegetarian’s nightmare, go vegan in meat-loving Quebec

  The cabanes à sucre have evolved from humble huts where sap is boiled down to maple syrup into feasting houses churning out meat by the tray-full.

  Features

  Apr 24, 2019
• Cabane à Sucre carriage rides suspended after horse collapses

  Carriage rides at a Saint-Eustache sugar shack have been temporarily halted after a horse collapsed.

  Canada

  Apr 8, 2019
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• Maplefest in Buckhorn seeing big crowds despite maple syrup shortage

  Maplefest in Buckhorn still attracts hundreds but this spring sap production has dropped signficantly.

  Environment

  Mar 26, 2018
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• Maple syrup producers in N.B. hope Mother Nature provides proper ingredients for a banner year

  The maple syrup season has arrived a little earlier than usual in much of the province. It's all hands on deck as producers race to get their trees tapped and lines out.

  Economy

  Mar 2, 2018