A towering bigleaf maple tree has been spared from the chopping block after Saanich residents rallied to save the giant.

This majestic sugar maple tree, towering at almost 25 meters tall with a trunk wider than most people can wrap their arms around, has earned its place as the country's oldest and most revered of ...

Called the Comfort Maple, the tree towers about 24.4 metres at its crown and has a trunk circumference of six metres, according to the conservation area. In 1975, the tree was estimated to be 400 to ...

Statistics Canada doesn’t track maple syrup prices specifically but classifies the product within its sugar and syrup index. Yearly annual price changes for the index were down 3.1 per cent in ...

Each spring, as the freeze-thaw cycle takes hold of parts of the country, the sap in red and sugar maple trees starts to flow, marking the start of the sugar bush season Mar 21, 2025 504 words 3 ...

Nicholas's operation will span 177 acres off Route 360 and the Trans-Canada Highway, which will allow up to 3,000 maple trees and 2,000 birch trees.

"We believe that [Indigenous people] were making maple syrup for 1,000 maybe 1,200 years before the first Europeans arrived here," said Fred Elliott of the Ontario Maple Syrup Museum in Hillsburgh.

And in Canada, we don’t even tap 50 per cent of the potential maple trees. So, continuing to expand and diversify syrup, water and other (products) helps to grow the potential to tap trees.