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When the Sugar Bird Sings: The History of Maple Syrup in Lanark County.
Claudia Smith.
Subject Heading:
Grades 5 - 12 / Ages 10 - 17.
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excerpt:
One of the jobs in many sugar camps was to run outside every five minutes or so to check that the dry shingles on the roof had not caught fire. Pokering the fire hard to stir up the flames caused lots of sparks and cinders to go up the smoke stack. At a sugar camp in Dalhousie, a young man who was a different sort of fellow, had the job of keeping an eye out for fires in the bush. One day, he ran into the camp to report that he smelled smoke but he couldn't find the fire anywhere. It became a familiar family anecdote because a spark had fallen on the fellow's wool hat. The smoldering wool on his head was what he could smell.The author, Claudia Smith, with the combined qualifications of elementary school teacher, native of the maple syrup making Eastern Townships of Quebec and current resident near Almonte, Lanark County, not far from Ottawa, has produced a book overflowing with the history and lore of the maple syrup industry. Black and white photographs, some archival, round out a thorough and intensive examination of the role of maple sugaring from pioneering days to the present. A lot of information of past and present practices interspersed with anecdotes around the maple sugar industry that will prove very useful for that class project.
Recommended.
Lorrie Andersen is a librarian with The Instructional Resources Unit, Manitoba Education and Training.
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The Manitoba Library Association
ISSN 1201-9364
TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THIS ISSUE - OCTOBER 3, 1997.
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