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Browse the gallery below for all the images and videos presented in the exhibition. Click on an item to see an enlarged image with description or to play a video with its transcript.
Sepia photograph: smiling man carrying sugar moulds. Snowy environment, near a rustic wooden sugar shack and a large wooden barrel on supports.
Sepia photograph: transporting maple sap in snowy winter woods. Four men in a snow-covered forest (bare maple trees). Right: a horse is harnessed to a wooden sleigh (large wooden barrel lying down).
Sepia photograph, making maple taffy (S. Pacôme): a man in winter clothing pours maple taffy into bark containers on the snow. Background: snow-covered woods, part of a wooden structure on the left.
Black and white photograph: a person stands near a tree drinking maple sap (metal container). Another bucket and spout on the tree. Snowless landscape (end of the sugaring-off season).
Sepia photograph: family celebration in front of a rustic wood cabin (wooded and snowy environment). Left foreground: two young women sitting. Centre: young man standing. Right: woman standing. Cabin roof: seated man . Far left: large wooden barrel.
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).
Watercolour by Bainbridge, Making Maple Sugar, Lower Canada, (around 1837). Under a rudimentary shelter (trunks/branches), two large cauldrons boil over a fire. Figures in winter clothing handle buckets and tools. Right: large wooden barrel. Background: forest of slender maples.
Comparison of the Sainte-Louise sugar shack school (then/now). Left (black and white photograph): wooden building, sign reading SUCRERIE ÉCOLE (Sugar Shack School), maple sap pipes, snowy woods. Right (colour, recent): similar wooden building, red doors/windows (contrasting with grayish wood), sign reading 1ÈRE SUCRERIE ÉCOLE DE LA PROVINCE DE QUÉBEC 1900 À 1936 AND PRODUITS PUR D’ÉRABLE (1st Sugar Shack School of the Province of Quebec 1900 to 1936 AND Pure Maple Products), snowy landscape.
Colour photograph (2024): reconstruction of a fish weir. Structure of horizontally interwoven wooden branches (thick vertical stakes). Outdoor environment: (green grass in foreground, trees, blue sky with white clouds in the background.
Black and white photograph (June 24, 1954): Flavius Ouellet standing next to a very large sturgeon hanging vertically (160 kg). Flavius Ouellet stands to the right of the fish. Background: outdoor environment next to a wooden structure.
Black and white engraving (L'Opinion publique, May 16, 1872): Une érablière (A Sugar Bush) (winter scene in maple woods, syrup production). Centre: rustic wooden cabin, smoke escaping from the chimney. Buckets and barrels scattered around the cabin. Left: two figures in winter clothing.
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