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People & Culture
The sugar bush is a Canadian institution. Especially so in Quebec, where about 70 per cent of the world’s maple syrup is made. Although the industry has grown and big commercial sap-sucking operations are more common, there remain a handful of smaller sugar shack owners who happily stick with the traditional spile-and-bucket method of gathering sap. In the portraits above, photographer Rodolphe Beaulieu-Poulin features a few of those people.
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This story is from the April 2016 Issue
Places
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Places
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Science & Tech
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Travel
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