Early spring is a time of year our family always looks forward to. Tapping the trees, hanging the buckets, gathering and boiling, all part of the wonderful world of making syrop.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Sylvia tell me how she make the syrop from the trees. Demonstrating a maple sugar bush and springtime sap gathering, this colourful lithograph, take from Thomas Conant's Upper Canada Sketches in the late 19th century, illustrates natives with local settlers from the back country gathering and preparing sap for maple sugar. Today the provice of Quebec supplies more than 50 percent of the world's supply of maple sugar
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