Sugar shack opens at Heritage Park
Posted Sep 29, 2017 7:14 am.
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Something sweet is opening at Heritage Park.
A sugar shack is now standing in the settlement area, educating visitors on Franco-Canadian history and culture.
Diane Boutin, of the French Canadian Association of Alberta said the building mimics one circa 1885-1920.
“A sugar shack is actually where they would produce maple syrup in the springtime in Quebec and Northern Ontario, I believe. They would harvest the sap from the sugar trees — the maple trees, and then they’d boil it down,” she explained.
The new attraction was funded with help from the federal government’s Canada 150 program.
