"The Indians were the first to realize the

select one imported importance improvements of the maple tree to their way of

life- moving from winter hunting ground to the mid

altitude maple groves. They would select one set up sell up settle up

camps, gash the trees with a tomahawk and use a

wooden chip or spout to direct the sap into a container.

Often the bucket was fashioned from birch bark.

The early white select one setters settlers spiders set up maple sugar

camps in the 1850s and 60s. This is Andrew Richard’s

camp, pictured in Dundas, County Ontario, the turn of

the century. Prior to 1900, comparatively little maple

syrup was select one produced policed profound , most of it being boiled

down to sugar. Coarse grain sugar was select one explosive expensive expositive ,

not readily available in these days. In 1861, production

of maple sugar had reached select one the most almost as post 14

million pounds. Iron or copper kettles were used to

select one Eat heat hurt the sap into syrup or eventually

sugar. A multiple kettle system, using 3 or 4 kettles

was select one popular polar pop for her , with boiling sap transferred from

one kettle to the next. The select one Finnish finished diminished syrup or sugar would be found in the last kettle.
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