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maple sugar†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
sugar obtained by boiling the sap of certain maple trees, especially the sugar maple.
Quotations
1765-75
Hear I Met with a Grate meney . . . trading with the tribes that Came a Grate Distans with thare furs, Skins & Mapel Suga &c to Market.
1767
In the beginning of April, I prepared to make maple-sugar.
1849
In 1848 nearly four million lbs. of maple sugar were manufactured in Upper Canada!
1966
Maple sugar was made by many tribes of Ontario.