Just a 45 – minute drive from downtown Monreal is located Sucrerie de la Montagne, a beautiful yard known as a cabane a sucre or sugar shack, where rustic accommodation and traditional food combined.

The picture displays the shack, where the evaporateur, a tremendous steel trough in which sugar maple sap is boiled down to syrup. Seventy – five percent of the world’s syrup supply is produced in Quebec.

This is Pierre Faucher, who is the owner of Sucrerie de la Montagne. He filters the syrup to perfection. It takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon pure syrup.

A celebration of traditional Quebec food at Sucrerie de la Montagne.

Ingredients of a sugar-shack feast, including, of course, maple syrup.

All the buildings at Sucrerie de la Montagne were constructed by hand, many of them by the owner himself, with ash and cedar hewn from trees cut down on the land. Mr. Faucher bought the property in 1978, then in 1981 started serving food year-round, a radical idea for the time.