Since tapping the maple trees in Richelieu Park in mid-February, the Museopark team has greatly appreciated the community’s invaluable help in harvesting the maple sap. This sugared water was then boiled in our sugar shack’s evaporator, giving us our first batch of maple syrup of the 2025 season, a very dark grade syrup.
The 2025 batch, 900 bottles proudly produced in Vanier at Canada’s only urban sugar shack, features new labels with an artistic flair. They were created by visual arts students at the Académie des arts of École secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges. Guided by the techniques and advice of visual artist Max Black, brand ambassador for Pébéo paints, Grade 10 students in Mrs. Josée Rivard’s class created pieces of art to embellish the Museopark’s maple syrup label. Our team selected four designs from all those submitted to create its collection of maple syrup bottles. Congratulations to our artists!
- Pyjamas by Abigail Boileau
- Oak by Danika Bertrand
- Leaves by Béatrice deVries
- Maple sugar bush in winter by Sophie Duford
You can now buy the Vanier Museopark maple syrup at the museum gift shop and at the Vanier Sugar Shack for just $10. So why not pick up a bottle – or all four – and try this delicious hyperlocal maple syrup?
This project is an initiative of Thomas Baribault, manager of the DeSerres store in the St-Laurent Shopping Center, in collaboration with the Vanier Museopark and Pébéo.