Sweet Sticky Syrup: Everything You Never Thought To Ask About Maple

📚Lecture: "Sweet Sticky Syrup. Everything You Never Thought To Ask About Maple"

🎤Speaker: Nick Paquin (Programming and Visitor Experience Coordinator at Vanier Museopark)

Do you know the history of why we call the building in which we make maple syrup a sugar shack and not a syrup shack? The biological reason we can extract a sweet sap so easily from maples? The implications of running a sugar shack in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of the city? There has been an operational sugar shack in Vanier since the 1930s and it is now run by the Francophone community museum, the Vanier Museopark.

This lecture will discuss the basics of how maple syrup gets made, some of the history of the craft, some of the biology of how it happens, what it means to the Vanier community to have a sugar bush, an inherently community-driven mode of agriculture, how it is affected by climate change, while also contributing to it, and more.

Nick Paquin is the Programming and Visitor Experience Coordinator at the Vanier Museopark, where he’s part teacher, part advocate, part maple worker and a lot in between. With an MA in public history and over a decade of teaching experience, Nick is passionate about making knowledge and museum spaces accessible to everyone. His research examined the history of policing and the myth of institutional neutrality, and how that neutrality can silence the people who care most.

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Agenda

6:15pm - Doors open: Grab a seat, order drinks and food and settle in.

6:55pm - Host Introduction

7:00pm - Lecture starts

7:45pm - Q&A with Audience

8:00pm - Socialize and make friends, grab drinks

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