Maple Syrup festival time in Canada is a long standing ritual where kids and families enjoy the first breath of spring along with the Maple Sap (spring tonic) boiling into Maple Syrup.  Enjoy trips to pancake barns and tours of the Maple sugar bush as part of the festival fun.

Canadian Maple Syrup Festivals

Maple Syrup festivals start in February though to April.  Many Canadian rural communities celebrate spring around the maple harvest.    Maple Syrup Festivals take place in the following Canadian Provinces: 
Ontario Maple Syrup Festivals, 
Quebec Maple Syrup Festivals, 
New Brunswick Maple Syrup Festivals,
Nova Scotia Maple Syrup Festivals,
British Columbia Maple Syrup Festivals

Ontario Canada

• Maple Syrup Festivals Ontario Canada
  Maple Syrup Ontario production is mostly north of Toronto in the larger sugar bush lots in Ontario resort destinations.  Many communities celebrate  with fun family maple syrup festivals starting in late February-early March though until the end of April. Check Maple Syrup Festivals North of Toronto, Greater Toronto Area, Southwestern Ontario,  and the Niagara Falls area.
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Quebec-Sugaring off.

• Quebec Sucre de Cabane, or Le Festival du Sucre d'Erable
  
   If your French language skills need a polish, you can test your accent with a little maple syrup on your breath. If you are in Quebec your French will improve quickly.  
  
  Here are a couple of possible getaway package options for your Quebec Maple experience. In Mont Tremblant, the Pimbina Gite B&B has a maple package getaway  and in Drummondville Quebec there is the Sugar Shack Package Getaway,  See more than 200 maple syrup venues at Les Cabanes.  The Quebec Maple Syrup producers can be found at Quebec Maple Syrup Producers (FPAQ)
  
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• Book early for a gourmet sugar-shack feast ‎
  Globe and Mail - Margo Pfeiff
  Everything, as per sugar-shack custom, is generously doused in maple syrup. Still peckish? Fork out $10for half or $20 for a whole flaky, ...Chef Martin Picard does this for the cabane a sucre what his Au Pied de Cochon did for Quebec cuisine. 

• In the Province of Quebec maple syrup harvest is called sugaring off.
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Nova Scotia Maple Festivals

• Maple Syrup Season Starts
  'Wonky' winter weather brings slightly early start to season
  Truro Daily News HARRY SULLIVAN TRURO DAILY NEWS CENTRAL NEW ANNAN - March traditionally heralds in the start of the maple syrup season in Nova Scotia but this year's ...Book Truro Hotel Deals
  
  
• Maple syrup season is upon us
  Chatham Daily News
  Maple syrup is a truly Canadian product, as we produce 70% of the total world's supply. Quebec produces nearly 90% of this, Ontario 10%, while Nova Scotia ...Book Best Deal Hotels in Nova Scotia
  

New Brunswick Sugar Camps

• Maple Capital of Atlantic Canada Festival
  Saint-Quentin:  New Brunswick:  The festival takes place during the sugar season, on Easter weekend.
  Among the maple products featured, you will find syrup products, and a maple products exhibition and sale. Meals featuring maple products are a highlight of the festival.

• Maple Sugar Bush visits are popular in New Brunswick During Maple Sap harvest time. There is a festival put on by the Maple Syrup Producers
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British Columbia

• Bigleaf Maple Syrup Festival Saturday February 5, 2011
  Duncan, B.C.
  10:00 am - 4:30 pm
  Taste maple syrup from Vancouver Island at the Bigleaf Maple Syrup Festival located at the BC Forest Discovery Centre--a 100-acre, open air museum with an operational railway in Duncan, British Columbia. Book Duncan BC Hotels on-line