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It is Maple Season in Quebec – Sweet!

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A sugar shack, known as a Cabane a Sucre in French, is a cabin found in a maple farm in Quebec.  Quebec has many maple farms where it produces maple syrup.  Quebec produces 90% of the world’s maple syrup.  It is a very big industry in our province.

In March, as the weather starts to get a little warmer and the ice starts to thaw from the trees, sap accumulates in the trees.  This sap is extracted from the trees and boiled to produce maple syrup.  Maple syrup is used to pour over pancakes, to bake with and to produce sugars, spreads and teas.

Many would be surprised to learn that there are many nutritional advantages to using maple syrup instead of sugar.  It is full of antioxidants and vitamins.

Quebecers like to visit maple farms every March.  We tour the maple farm and have a traditional Quebecois lunch that consists of eggs, ham, pea soup, fried pig skin, picked beets, pancakes and sugar pie.  We listen to Quebec folk music and celebrate this all mighty maple tree!  Later, we go out in the snow and are served maple taffy pull on a stick!

At EC Montreal we will transform our student lounge into a sugar shack to give our students a taste of this tradition. Some of our activities in March include a pancake breakfast, a maple tea and conversation event as well as a maple syrup festival at the end of the month.  We will introduce our students to many maple syrup products that are now available in shops.  There are so many varieties of sweets like pies, cookies, cupcakes, candy, popcorn and different types of milks as well!

In addition, we will be visiting a sugar shack with Marcus from Iko tours on Saturday, March 28 so our students can experience this tradition for themselves!

We can’t wait to share maple season events with our students!  Life sure is sweet with EC Montreal!

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