Ski hills and Sugarbushes

Hello beautiful people, this week we’ve got for you:

• End of season ski slopes to hit

• Some indoor activities for wet early spring days

• Syrup festivals and sugar bushes across Canada

Let’s go!

— Jenna Kelly

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Getting to the Slopes for the End of the Season

While the skiing season is going strong with great powder across the country, spring can be unpredictable in Canada. February may be the end in many places, or hills could run right up until the beginning of April, in every province in the country. If your family wants to hit the slopes before you miss the chance, here are some great options.

We’ve got a google map list with all the ski hills we could find for you, so you can choose the locations that work best for your itinerary.

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia has a few great options for skiing, but Cape Smokey is something particularly special, with its stunning ocean views from the hilltop. Run by volunteers, they have sales for March break tickets right now.

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Tiny Quick Tips

While last week’s tips about keeping everyone warm are still useful, spring is around the corner. This week here are some ideas for keeping busy when it is wet, slushy, and mucky outside and you want to stick to indoors.

• Visit museums, art galleries or science centres

• Find indoor sports venues, like rock climbing, laser tag, indoor soccer, or a batting cage.

• Plan your next trip

• Cozy up in a cafe, and each get your favourite hot drink

• Find an indoor pool or waterpark

• Go outside anyway. Dig out the rain boots and slush pants and have a puddle jumping contest, look for signs of spring, or do some bird watching (our first robins are back already!)

• Make maple or birch syrup. Wet and slushy means it is the perfect time of year!

Sometimes the weather makes wanting to be outside challenging. But there’s also the old adage “there’s no bad weather, just bad clothes.”

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Across Canada

Hidden Gems

• Take a winter walk to see Cavendish Cliffs, for a beautiful winter view, just minutes from Avonlea Village on PEI. Just dress warm, the wind can get to you!

• Baxters Harbour Falls in Nova Scotia

• Visit Ganong Chocolate Factory in St. Stephen, NB

• Walk down Jelly Bean Row in St. John’s, NL

• Gaze at the night sky at Mont-Mégantic International Dark Sky Reserve, in Notre-Dame-des-Bois, QC

• Take a tour of the Lake Superior Ice Caves in ON

• Visit a real, greek, medieval castle (okay, it’s been furnished with greek limestone and real artifacts) in Regina, SK

• Grotto Canyon, just outside Canmore, AB

• Feel like a giant visiting Miniature World at the Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC

• See this hockey rink turned greenhouse in Inuvik, NWT

Upcoming Events

While it often feels like we don’t really have spring in most of Canada until at least April, the beginning evidence shows when sugar bushes and syrup festivals start. Here are some across the country to check out:

Festivals

Kings Landing: Maple, the First Taste of Spring on March 8 & 9, 15 & 16 in Kings Landing, NB

Festival de l’Erable or Festival of Maple is the first weekend of May in Plessisville, QC

Festival beauceron de l’erable in Sainte-Georges, QC May 23, 24 & 25

Festival de Sucre in St-Pierre-Baptiste, QC on May 15, 16, 17, & 18

Maple Weekend across Ontario on April 5 & 6

Maple Syrup Festival in Whitchurch-Stouffville and Woodbridge ON March 8 to 16 (Ontario’s March Break), March 22, 23, 24 & 26, and April 5 & 6

Sunderland Maple Syrup Festival in Ontario, April 5 & 6

St-Pierre-Jolys Museum Sugar Shack Sugaring Off Festival in Manitoba, April 3 to 6

Sugarbushes and Pancake Houses

Nova Scotia

Maple Mist in Kemptown

Hutchinson Acres in Alyesford

Davidson’s Pancake House in Parrsboro, open for March and April

Sugar Moon in Earltown

Swan’s Maple Farm near Wentworth

New Brunswick

Chateau Soudouc

Sugarbush La Causerie in Kent

Trite Maples north of Moncton

Elmhurst Outdoors in Erbs Cove

Dumfries Maples opens on March 1

Kenneth Maple Farms in Glassville

Sugar Moon Cookhouse opens on March 8

Sucrerie Chiasson has their first brunch on March 2

Quebec

Sucrerie de la Montagne sugaring off season goes until the end of April

Sucrerie Alary n Luskville

Domaine de l’Ange-Gardien

Sucrerie Bonaventure in Mirabel

Le Chalet de Erables in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines until April 27

Érablière au Sous-Bois in Mont-Saint-Grégoire

Domaine du sucrier in Saint-Boniface

Cabane A Sucre Leclerc in Neuville

Érablière du Cap Inc in Lévis

Érablière du Lac-Beauport

and more!

Ontario

Wheelers Maple in McDonalds Corner

Trillium Ridge Sugarworks in Shannonville

Maple Syrup Museum of Ontario in Hillsburgh

Kinsmen Fanshawe Sugar Bush in Thorndale

Sugarbush Hill Maple Farm in Huntsville

Long's Maple Syrup in Trout Creek

Pefferlaw Creek Farms Maple Syrup in Uxbridge

White Meadows Farm in Pelham

Hogan’s Homestead in Sault St. Marie

Fortune Farms in Almonte

Log Farm in Napean

Agape Valley in Ridgeville

Tiffin Centre for Conservation

Manitoba

Manitoba not only has a couple maple syrup options, they also have birch syrup! A unique option for those who want to try something new.

The Canadian Birch Company in Beaconia

Manitoba Maple Syrup in Winnipeg

St-Pierre-Jolys Museum Sugar Shack

Rocky Lake Birchworks in The Pas

Saskatchewan

You can have a full Sugar Shack Staycation in Saskatoon.

British Columbia

British Columbia has one great, first-nations owned maple syrup producer, Kleekhoot Gold made from big leaf maple trees, native to the west coast.

There are also some pancake houses that feature a sugar-shack-like experience.

Maples Sugar Shack on Grenville Island

Maple Roch in Summerland

The Sugar Shack in 70 Mile House

Moose Meadows Farm in Quesnel has birch sugaring in April

Maple syrup has become a symbol of Canadian culture, and there is a limited time to get out and enjoy learning about how that it’s made. So get out there, and enjoy it!

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Joke of the day

Why is maple syrup always so sad?

So tell us…

Last we we asked readers “what in Canada is on your family travel bucket list?” Here are our favourite responses:

• Granville Island, BC

• Skating on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, ON

• Watching the Northern lights in the Yukon

• Canoeing on Lake Louise, AB

• See the Hope Well Rocks in the Bay of Fundy, NB

• Whale watching in Nanaimo, BC

• Go dog sledding

• Visit Green Gables on PEI

• Go to the world’s largest Pow Wow in MB

This week, our question is: What is the best festival or event your family has attended In Canada?

Joke answer: Because it’s sappy

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