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1. From ancestral practices to industrialization
We have to go back to time immemorial to evoke the Amerindian tribes who populated Eastern Canada, long before the arrival of French settlers and Samuel de Champlain, founder of Quebec City in 1608. An early version of the origin of maple sap tells of squirrels licking the sap from broken branches in early spring, as it slowly drips down the trunk and is transformed into syrup by the warmth of the sun. Other legends tell of a woman from the Micmac tribe who, preferring to drink the hot maple sap, left it on the fire, turning it into syrup. Natives used their tomahawks to make a V-shaped notch into which they inserted a strip of bark to collect the maple water in a birchbark container. This harvesting system was later replaced by a metal piece, or goudrelle, which collected the maple water by gravity in a truncated-cone-shaped metal boiler (made of iron, then aluminum).
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From ancestral practices to industrialization
Maple syrup
Bibliography
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Professional organizations
Southern Quebec Forestry Association https://afsq.org
Quebec Maple Syrup Producers https://ppaq.ca/fr
Quebec maple http://www.siropderable.ca
...Key figures and trends
Maple syrup production (source: PPAQ)
The 2021 season was described as "average" by the professionals, with Quebec producing 133 million pounds of maple syrup (or 45.6 million liters). The average for the province of Quebec was 2.75 pounds per tap (or 0.94 L). These mixed results can be explained by the high temperatures in April, which caused tapping to start at the same time in all regions, and to end...
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