March 12 at 11:21 AM ·
This was our sugar camp when I was growing up-they were a good team. One was Queenie but I can’t remember the name of the other
Our farm was corner of High st and Town Line.The maple bush was across the highway on the lake. Think they call it Birch point. We had a 1/4 mike of lake frontage and rented lots where people now have homes and cabins.
John Poole– I own this property now. The remnants of the old sugar camp are still there. Timmy told me that years ago some kids from town came out and burnt it down. I’ll go for a walk this weekend and get an updated picture.
John Poole thank you. That would be great. Huge memories for me. I remember the day it burned down. We had just come home from church and saw the smoke.Kids playing with matches
This was my dad’s sugar bush on Hwy 7 near our farm over looking the Mississippi at Montgomery shores. It burned at some point too and the trees were gone. It’s a car repair place I think now, across from a B&B.
Sherri Iona–Ours was across the 7 from our farm (Orme’s bought it). There is a vehicle repair there now I think. All the great maples are gone. There is a picture of the sugar shack and bush in Wheeler’s museum.
John Poole:-Sherri Iona I own that farm as well. The large old growth maple was mostly harvested long before my time. I run my towing business out of there and farm the land.
Dave LashleyWally Burns the bush was right across from Clarke Greers. Our farm was just to the east off highway 7. The bush was at the northwest part of our farm. The farm was owned by Stan Tackaberry before my Dad, Don Lashley, and Grandfather Burnett Montgomery bought it in 1954. I remember sugaring in the bush with my Dad and grandparents in the 50s. I remember your farm and Birch Point and us hanging out once in awhile. My Dad started the Montgomery Shore cottage lots with 8 lots and the extension of the concession road to the lake. When we sold as Sherri Iona said my grandfather sold the rest of the shore lots west of the original 8. Our cottage built in the early 60s is still there albeit a bit different today.
Historical Photos of sugar making
The G.H. Grimm Company was one of the largest and most influential maple sugar evaporator companies of the late 19th and all of the 20th centuries. The company began with Gustav Henry Grimm who was born in Baden, Germany in 1850. He came to new world in 1864 with his parents, settling in Cleveland, Ohio. A few years later as a young man, around 1870 Grimm moved to Hudson, Ohio with his new wife. Grimm came from a family of tin workers, with the 1870 and 1880 census for the Cleveland area showing a number of other Grimms who immigrated from Germany to Ohio also listed as tin workers. Read more here..
Sometimes I’m asked if I don’t miss sugaring and I always say “Yes, for about two days. Then I remember what hard work it was, how it felt after a day gathering to come home and have to milk cows, and I get over it!” This was our Sugarhouse with Prince and Nellie. Brent McC
It is no longer used and it is unknown when it was erected.
Sticky and Sweet in Lanark County
So What Did you Eat with Maple Syrup? Pickles?
Cooking with Findlay’s — Christine Armstrong’s Inheritance and Maple Syrup Recipe
Life in the Sugar Bush in the 1800s
Granny’s Maple Fudge —Lanark County Recipes
Life in the Sugar Bush in the 1800s
What You Might Not Know About The Maples
That Smell Of The Lanark County SAP Being Processed — Noreen Tyers
Sticky Fingers – With Apologies to Edward Gorey –Wheeler’s Pancake House
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