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  The Maple Syrup Industry in Ontario
Sugar maple and fl maples are often referred to as hard maples and red maple and silver maple are often referred to as soft maples.
Maple syrup should be packed hot at a temperature of 83° C (180° F) After the container is full, the cap should be put on it and the container should be placed on its side, in order to sterilize the neck and cap.
Maple syrup is heated to between 12 and 22°C (22 to 49°F) above the boiling point of water, depending on whether the taffy is to be soft or hard.
www.omafra.gov.on.ca /english/crops/facts/maple.htm   (6834 words)

  
 Maple, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maple is a high-growth suburban community northwest of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, part of the city of Vaughan in York Region.
Maple is located 13 km NE of Woodbridge, 11 km E of Kleinburg 8 km S of King City, 6.5 km from downtown Richmond Hill 12 km NW of Thornhill N of Highway 401, and SSE of Barrie.
Maple, as a centre of agriculture, was enhanced with the proximity of the CNR line, as well as the growing urban development of Toronto.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maple,_Ontario   (1146 words)

  
 WildWNC.org : Trees : Silver Maple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The natural range of silver maple extends from New Brunswick, central Maine, and southern Quebec, west in southeastern Ontario and northern Michigan to southwestern Ontario; south in Minnesota to southeastern South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma; and east in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama to northwestern Florida and central Georgia (22).
The preferred size of seedlings for establishing plantations of silver maple in Ontario is 30 cm (12 in) in height and 6 mm (0.25 in) in root-collar diameter (43).
Among the borers are the Columbian timber beetle (Corthylus columbianus); the flatheaded appletree borer (Chrysobothris femorata); the maple callus borer (Synanthedon acerni); and the pinhole borer (Xyloterinus politus).
wildwnc.org /trees/Acer_saccharinum.html   (3392 words)

  
 The Country Connection Magazine Maple Syrup Guide
As the world's fourth largest producer of maple syrup (Quebec is number one), Ontarians have long known about this ambrosial elixir, having learned of its delights from North American natives when the first settlers arrived from Europe.
The sap that runs from maple trees across the south-east of Canada and the north-east of the United States is a clear fluid, very liquid and not very sweet.
You can freeze maple syrup for up to one year in a tightly-sealed container, but be sure and leave 2 cm of head room for expansion.
www.pinecone.on.ca /MAGAZINE/maple.html   (651 words)

  
 Warkworth Maple Syrup Festival - Maple Syrup production
The sugar maple tree is unique to the southeastern part of Canada and the northeastern part of the United States.
Maple syrup is made from the sap of the sugar maple tree.
The hot maple syrup is put through a filter to remove the small particles of sugar sand before it is put in glass, metal or plastic containers.
www.maplesyrupfestival.com /maple_syrup_production.html   (733 words)

  
 Ontario Travel North Maple Syrup Festivals Harvests Spring
Maple syrup history goes back 1000 years and coincides with the arrival of spring, warmer weather and the "Maple Moon." The "sugaring off " period or maple syrup festival time is unique to North Eastern North America.
The importance of the maple tree is often ignored both as the source of Canada's national emblem on our flag, and as the source of the delicious golden liquid called maple syrup produced each spring in North Eastern Canada.
Maple Leaves Forever (MLF] is focusing on the planting of the Maple Tree across Canada.
www.400eleven.com /maple-syrup.html   (413 words)

  
 Maple Outlet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Maple syrup comes from boiling sap until the desired sugar concentration is achieved.
The sugar concentration of maple syrup is 67 percent.
In the early 1980s, there were approximately 4,900 maple producers in the United States with an average of slightly less than 1,000 taps each.
www.mapleoutlet.com   (344 words)

  
 [*Acer campestre L
This tree, the only Maple here with a milky sap, dominates the maple element of the trees at Dufferin Islands and in one section in the Gorge, generally midslope between the Lower Arch Bridge and the Maid of the Mist,landing, Ontario, it is the dominant tree of the forest.
Ontario: Base of the Niagara River gorge, several escapes, young, noticed throughout the lower woods by the river's edge going S toward the Falls.
Both this species and the Norway Maple grow side by side at the base of the gorge and they may be difficult to separate, especially if attempts are made to reduce or eliminate Norway Maple from the Niagara woodlands as part of a restoration scheme.
www.mobot.org /plantscience/ResBot/Flor/WNY-Niag/Acer.htm   (1886 words)

  
 WildWNC.org : Trees : Sugar Maple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The northern limit of sugar maple nearly parallels the 35th mean annual isotherm extending eastward from the extreme southeast corner of Manitoba, through central Ontario, the southern third of Quebec and all of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
In the sugar maple region, typical ranges in temperatures are from -40° C (-40° F) in the north to 38° C (100° F) in the southwestern areas.
Another major characteristic of the germinating sugar maple seed is its vigorous development of a strong radicle that has the strength and length to penetrate heavy leaf litter and reach mineral soil during the moist period.
wildwnc.org /trees/Acer_saccharum.html   (7400 words)

  
 Foodland Produce Facts - Ontario Maple Syrup
To ensure you are getting real maple syrup and not an imitation breakfast syrup, check the label for "Maple Syrup" or "Pure Maple Syrup" and the name of an Ontario producer or packer.
You can freeze maple syrup for up to one year in a tightly-sealed container, but be sure and leave 2 cm of head space for expansion.
While the early settlers learned to make maple syrup, it wasn't until the 19th century, when metal containers were used to catch and boil the sap, that it became a significant industry.
www.foodland.gov.on.ca /facts/maple_syrup.htm   (288 words)

  
 Ryan's 'SWEET MAPLE' Syrup in Forest Ontario Canada, selling maple syrup
Maple syrup is the ideal complement to many foods including pancakes, waffles, toast or on its own as a sweet treat.
Other maples also produced the basic sap could be boiled into syrup, but, because the sugar content was much lower, they were used far less.
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.
www.sweetmaple.ca   (566 words)

  
 Weed starves Ontario maple forests: study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Maples, ashes and other hardwood trees are being harmed by an invasive weed that indirectly slows their growth to about one-tenth the normal speed, scientists say.
The weed harms hardwood trees such as sugar maples by releasing chemicals that harm a soil fungus that the trees need to grow and survive, said the study by Canadian, American and German researchers.
Sugar maple, red maple and white ash showed less fungal colonization and grew only about one-tenth as fast in soil infested with the weeds, they say in their study.
www.cbc.ca /ottawa/story/print/ot-weed20060425   (475 words)

  
 Maple Syrup Recipes and Canadian Maple Syrup
The Canadian climate ensures that our maple syrup is abounding with taste and the richness of Canada due to the sweetness and quality of our sap.
Ontario Maple Syrup is made from 100% pure maple sap.
Canadian maple syrup is the ideal accompaniment to many foods such as pancakes, waffles and toast or on its own as a sweet treat.
www.ontariomaplesyrup.com   (216 words)

  
 Randonneurs Ontario: Maple-Orillia 200K (2004) Ride Report
I left Maple with the second group, Ann Pokocky, Paul Dicks and Greg Aman, and stayed with them to Bradford just north of the Holland Marsh.
The pace was just a bit faster than I comfortably handle and the decision was made that they would head out ahead to complete the brevet while I would go alone to Barrie and then turn back.
For the return to Maple, there was a change in the weather.
www.randonneursontario.ca /result/rrmo04.html   (808 words)

  
 Maple syrup producers gather to protest MPAC - The Online Independent - February 18, 2004
The result for some maple syrup producers across the province has been increases of up to 1,700 per cent in their property assessment.
Curle questioned the MPAC official why the corporation hasn’t reassessed the properties of all maple syrup producers in Ontario, noting that only two of 45 in his part of the province have had their production facilities classified as industrial.
Barry Sinclair, a tax specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, said his ministry disagrees with MPAC’s interpretation of the regulations but he acknowledged that the definitions of farm and industrial properties are “very broad” and need to be clarified.
www.indynews.ca /archives/news/news2004/February/mapleMPAC021804.html   (804 words)

  
 Ontario Travel North Maple Syrup Festivals Spring Maple Syrup Festival
There is also a weekly maple syrup report during the maple harvest season.
Maple syrup history goes back 1000 years and coincides with the arrival of spring, warmer weather and the "Maple Moon".
For accommodation packages in the Ontario resort destinations north of Toronto you have several options, Easter Getaways, April Getaways, Spring Getaways are all available during the Maple Sap harvest season.
www.400eleven.com /maple-syrup-festivals.html   (543 words)

  
 The Independent, March 15, 2000: Warkworth's Maple Syrup Festival
If you go to the maple syrup festival, the biggest faux-pas you could commit would be suggesting that Americans, particularly those green-mountain-people in the state of Vermont, are better maple-syrup producers than Canucks.
While he acknowledges that the popular opinion holds that maple syrup comes primarily from Quebec and then from Vermont, with Ontario a close third, he's quick to observe that Ontario maple syrup is just as good as Quebec's.
In the middle of the maple syrup merriment, a small stage has been erected for fiddlers, clog dancers, and country music so that wherever you go at the festival, there's always going to be a little rhythm.
www.indynews.ca /archives/news/newsMarch2000/maple03152000.html   (1039 words)

  
 Fun Farms and Maple Syrup Festivals in Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In recent years the maple syrup festival has attracted a wide range of visitors from all over Ontario and even Canada and the world.
The goal of the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival (EMSF) is to build and strengthen community spirit through the involvement of a large number of area residents in the planning and operation of a maple syrup festival.
Continuing a tradition of 36 years, the EMSF continues to promote the community, surrounding area and local maple syrup producers.
www.geocities.com /p_taggett/funfarms.html   (1027 words)

  
 Exide Technologies' Maple, Ontario Facility Wins Environmental Award
MAPLE,, ONTARIO, Apr. 20 -/E-Wire/-- The Exide Technologies (NYSE: EX) manufacturing facility in Maple, Ontario, Canada, recently earned the 2001 Environmental Consciousness Award given by the Vaughan, Ontario Chamber of Commerce.
The Maple facility developed a water reclamation program that reduced water consumption in the plant by more than 80 million gallons between July 1997 and February of this year.
These projects are some of the initiatives the Maple plant has documented as part of its pursuit of implementing a superior environmental management system, or EMS.
www.ewire.com /display.cfm/Wire_ID/384   (753 words)

  
 Annual Elmvale Maple Syrup Festival Vendor's
Pancakes with maple syrup and sausages are served up all day long for a nominal fee.
The Elmvale Maple Syrup Festival is run entirely by volunteer organizations working together to promote and support the community of Elmvale and the surrounding districts.
Only those vendors registered with the Elmvale Maple Syrup Association organizers and approved will be allowed to operate a business on the day of the festival providing they adhere to all fire, safety, and/or health rules and regulations.
www.elmvalemaplesyrup.ca /vendor.html   (1065 words)

  
 Ontario Maple Syrup
All our syrup is Canada No.1 Medium, light in colour but with a rich maple taste.
but you should know that maple syrup is happiest on your table, where it can be enjoyed.
Please remember to put your opened maple syrup in the refrigerator.
www.ontariomaplesyrup.com /products.html   (66 words)

  
 Ontario Fruit Wine — Moon Shadows Estate Winery
Here you can find not only maple syrup in a selection of sizes, a variety of tasty maple products, a large selection of unique gifts for everyone but also a wide variety of fine Ontario fruit wines.
From the earlier years of their maple syrup production came the concept of maple wine and from there Moon Shadows Estate Winery was born.
Among their selection of wines, Golden Maple, Cran Maple and Maple Sugar all feature the heavenly taste of maple and are among the most popular.
www.moonshadowswinery.com   (376 words)

  
 Uncle Richard's Maple Syrup Products and Supplies
pure maple syrup products are one of the few foods today which is additive and preservative free.
Maple syrup is Mother Nature's natural sweetener and defies the imitators in taste and wholesome benefits.
and equipment for the hobbyist and the large maple producer.
www.unclerichards.com   (161 words)

  
 Maple Syrup Shop - Producers of pure maple sugar, cream and syrup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Maple Syrup Shop is the realization of a family's dreams.
The sugar maple produces the sweetest sap of all the maple species, which in turn produces a syrup with amazing flavor and clarity.
Maple sugaring is a lot of hard work, but don't get us wrong, we certainly do enjoy it.
www.maplesyrupshop.com   (449 words)

  
 Maple Leaf Foods - Our History
Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Canada's largest food processor, was amalgamated in 1991 through the merger of two diversified Canadian food companies, Maple Leaf Mills Limited and Canada Packers Inc.
Maple Leaf Mills Limited was officially formed in 1961 from the amalgamation of the Maple Leaf Milling Company Limited, Toronto Elevators Limited and Purity Flour Mills Limited.
Maple Leaf Mills Limited grew to be a prominent force in the production and distribution of flour-based products in Canada.
www.mapleleaf.com /aboutus/OurHistory.aspx   (352 words)

  
 Maple Ridge, BC News
Nathalie Gettliffe and her infant son Martin seem to be in good health and appear to have been well-treated, a French senator reportedly said after visiting the two at the medium-security Alouette Correctional...
The community of Maple Ridge is currently re-living a particularly gruesome crime of a year-and-a-half ago: Chett and Flo Crellin's 24-year-old grandson - an energetic, thoughtful and conscientious young man -...
A Anti-crystal meth crusader and Maple Ridge, B.C., Mayor Gord Robson says drug testing should be a "tool" available to parents, who feel their child is spiralling out of control.
www.topix.net /ca/maple-ridge-bc   (703 words)

  
 Ontario Maple Syrup Maple Syrup Production Maple Syrup Supply Canada Maple Syrup
We offer maple syrup goodie baskets, teas, bulk wedding favours, coffee, syrups, cookies, candies, recipe books and much more.
Our pledge is to produce the very best Maple Syrup gift and gourmet products and sell them in the finest upscale retail outlets in the world — promoting Canada to the rest of the world through “Continuous quality, taste, presentation improvement and customer service”.
Jakeman's is proud of their recent success in a blind taste test sponsored by the National Post Jakeman's Pure and Natural Maple Syrup was voted "The Best Tasting Maple Syrup in Canada." (Number one out of 8 national brands tasted!) Food critics included representation from Food and Drink.
www.themaplestore.com   (386 words)

  
 Ontario Y2K
Newly issued (January 2004) Ontario license plates book by Joe Sallmen of Fairmont, West Virginia (via Ottawa, Ontario) Cost is $35.00 post paid in the U.S. Click on plate for larger image.
November 2000 expiry on Ontario motorcycle license plate brought to you by Jim Moini of Bergenfield, New Jersey.
Recent photo from Joe Sallmen, Ottawa, Ontario (currently in Fairmont, West Virginia) of an April 2000 Ontario expiration on a Member of the House of Commons plate.
www.plateshack.com /y2k/Ontario/ony2k.html   (804 words)

  
 Ontario Ice Fishing & Ice Hut Operators - FISHinONTARIO
Ontario has some excellent ice fishing to offer to all of you diehard fishing people who just can't get enough.
Anglers should be aware that there are numerous cottages around many of the lakes in the Haliburton and Muskoka areas.
Much of the Algonquin Region, though, is still covered with forest: pine and spruce mixed with southern hardwoods such as maple, yellow birch and beech.
www.fishinontario.com /algonquin.shtml   (789 words)

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