Maple Sugar Festival
| March 28, 2012 | to | April 1, 2012 |
(Le français suivra l’anglais)
The Maple Sugar Festival guaranties fun-filled days for the entire family. The day starts with a delicious pancake breakfast, maple syrup and taffy while you enjoy continuous live entertainment. Kids will enjoy all the activities offered such as artistic makeup, storytelling, trolley ride and many others activities to be determined. Free admission to the park.
Event Highlights:
- Saturday and Sunday brunch
- Several activities for adults and children
- Entertainment for adults and children
General information: 613.580.2424 ext. 32001
General information email: info@festivaldessucres.ca
Location: Parc Richelieu, 300 avenue des Peres Blancs, Ottawa, ON
On the Web:
Website: www.museoparc.ca/festival / www.festivaldessucres.ca
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Le festival des sucres promet des journées d’amusement pour toute la famille. La journée débute avec un déjeuner de crêpes succulent arrosé de sirop d’érable et de tire sur la neige tout en écoutant des artistes qui se produisent en direct. Les enfants apprécieront les activités telles que du maquillage artistique, des contes, des tours en carriole tirée par des chevaux et plusieurs autres activités qui sont à déterminer. L’entrée au parc est libre.
Fut Le Moment des Eventements:
- Déjeuner samedi et dimanche matin
- Activités pour les adultes et les enfants
- Divertissements pour les adultes et les enfants (Suzanne Pinel sera une invitée spéciale)
L’Information de Festivale:
L’Information générale: 613.746.4339
Couriel d’Information générale: info@festivalsucres.ca
Location: Parc Richelieu, 300 avenue des Peres Blancs, Ottawa, ON
Sur le Web:
Website: www.museoparc.ca/festival
Warm days get sap flowing for tapping season
Michelle Nash, YourOttawaRegion
While the maple sugar festival at Richelieu Park is still almost a month a way, organizers tapped the maple trees as temperatures rose last week.
One of the only urban maple sugar shacks in Canada, the Sugar Shack at Richelieu Park taps about 800 trees in the park. The annual sugar festival runs at the end of March. The recent rise in temperatures, which led to the cancellation of some Winterlude, made for the perfect flow of sap, so organizers at the Sugar Shack decided to collect the watery substance and make maple sugar in preparation for the festival.
“There is no other urban sugar shack in Canada, maybe in the world. This is a unique festival in the heart of Vanier,” Richer said.
Full story on the YourOttawaRegion website: Warm days get sap flowing for tapping season
Maple Sugar Festival Enters Final Weekend
Ottawa East EMC
By Desmond Devoy
EMC Events – Plenty of cool Franco-Ontarien music will take the place of snow at this year’s Maple Sugar Festival in Vanier’s Richelieu Park, which runs until Sunday, April 18.
This year, the Vanier-based Association des Professionels de la Chanson et de la Musique (APCM) will be celebrating its 20th anniversary representing Francophone musicians and singers in Ontario, and the western provinces.
Jean-Marc Lalonde will put on a bilingual show, while Louis Phillipe Robillard’s show will feature three English songs. Louis Racine’s show will be mostly in French, but the APCM’s founder, Donal Poliquin, who has had quite the international career in Europe, will be taking to the stage this weekend as well.
To read the full article, please click on Maple Sugar Festival Enters Final Weekend.
Action Vanier’s “Superman” volunteer retires
EMC News – After more than 15 years spent reviving Action Vanier, master volunteer Gilles Ladouceur has decided to retire.Ladouceur was honoured by Action Vanier’s Board of Directors, community members and politicians during a special luncheon in his honour at Centre Pauline Charron, 165 Jeanne-Mance Street on the morning of Tuesday, December 22.
The decision to restart a dormant charity was made easier for Ladouceur and his friends those many years ago, because of a bureaucratic hiccup.
“In 1992, Action Vanier decided to close. But they never sent the papers to Industry Canada,” to officially wind them up, said Ladouceur, during an interview before his party. As a result, Ladouceur and two friends, at the behest of Vanier’s then-mayor, decided to begin reviving it in 1994.
“We wanted to do some charity work. We wanted to change all of the street signs in Vanier,” he recalled. In time though, Action Vanier, through Ladouceur’s hard work, began taking on other initiatives, including reviving the Sugar Shack in Richelieu Park and maintaining the Maple Sugar Fest, a highlight of any Vanier winter season. Action Vanier was also helpful in setting up the Vanier Museopark and a monthly bilingual newspaper, Perspectives Vanier.
The decision to take on the Sugar Shack and its annual festival was placed upon them after Vanier amalgamated with the City of Ottawa in 2001 since “the City said they were not the festival business.”
To read the full article, click here.
