The first person to get rich from the sweet products of maple trees was an American. George Clinton Cary was born in 1864 on a farm in Fort Fairfield, in eastern Maine, on the border of New Brunswick.

A maple leaf-shaped bottle of maple syrup on a stump surrounded by leaves and flannel - Maridav/Getty Images Canada produces most of the world's maple syrup, so it would seem this country with the ...

I bet you can envision the scene even if you’ve never been to Quebec: bearded men in black-and-red checkered shirts, snowy maple sugar bushes, tapered tin buckets filled with sweet sap. Maple syrup is ...