Liquid gold: First Nation taps into big leaf maple The syrup system -- modelled after technology used in Quebec and Ontario -- is a first for the West Coast.

1:48 This is BC: Local secret of west coast maple syrup producers When most people think of Canadian maple syrup, Quebec will come to mind, but there are a small number of producers on the west coast.

A maple syrup farm on Manitoulin Island has tapped its trees and is once again auctioning off its first litre for charity to help fight cancer.

The recent bout of frosty weather may have helped to extend the coast’s small maple syrup industry this year. Unlike syrup producers down east, who look forward to warmer temperatures in late winter ...

Peter Kuitenbrouwer is the author of Maple Syrup: A Short History of Canada’s Sweetest Obsession. Parry Island belongs to Wasauksing First Nation. Located in the Georgian Bay off Parry Sound – about ...

Tom Shaw still has the board on which his great-grandfather wrote yearly records of Shaws’ first boiling day. Although the heart of the season – mid-March – hasn’t changed since 1904, this year the ...