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Sugaring-off season

Krieghoff print Sugar Making in Canda. Several people: man stirs a cauldron over a fire under a shelter (elderly woman beside him), man fills a barrel, child is near a container, woman handles sugar moulds. Snowy environment tapped maple trees (sap containers). Scattered tools (axe, buckets).

Sugar Making in Canada, Cornelius Krieghoff (1815-1872), print. Library and Archives Canada.

In the centre, a man wearing a blue hat and a red sash stirs a large cauldron of maple sap, suspended over a fire. The wooden shelter has an opening in the centre to allow steam from the cauldron to escape. To the right, a man wearing a fur hat pours the maple sap collected in a bucket into a large barrel. To the left, a woman is preparing  to make maple sugar loaves. Bark containers (cassots) and spouts (goutterelles) can be seen at the base of the trees, where they were used for collecting maple sap.