"We believe that [Indigenous people] were making maple syrup for 1,000 maybe 1,200 years before the first Europeans arrived here," said Fred Elliott of the Ontario Maple Syrup Museum in Hillsburgh.

Seventh-graders at the Riverside district school have been working with staff members this winter to make maple syrup from trees on school grounds. Students are learning how to tap, boil and ...

"We believe that [Indigenous people] were making maple syrup for 1,000 maybe 1,200 years before the first Europeans arrived here," said Fred Elliott of the Ontario Maple Syrup Museum in Hillsburgh.