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Maple Syrup Festivals and More…

You can always tell the season by the type of festivals being held. Take spring for instance. There are maple syrup festivals, garden shows, flower festivals and home improvement shows. In the summer it’s waterfront festivals, music festivals and historical re-enactments.

So when I tell you that we visited a number of maple syrup festivals this year, you won’t be surprised! Our first maple festival this year was the Sugarbush Maple Syrup Festival held in Bruce’s Mill Conservation Area near Stouffville. It was followed by Maple in the County (Prince Edward County) and then the Festival of Maples in Perth.

This coming weekend we are visiting the Bowmanville Maple Festival and All That Jazz. They are holding it this year even though they have just experienced a major downtown fire that gutted a number of the main street buildings. Talk about community spirit and determination!

There were plenty of other maple festivals we could have visited if we had more time and could have cloned ourselves! For the remainder of the month we plan on visiting Keswick for the “Rise to Rebellion” historical re-enactment, and then it is on to Barrie for their Waterfront Festival. The next day there is the Toronto International Circus Festival. Wow and it’s not even the end of May.

The last two weeks include a trip to the Kitchener-Waterloo area to visit an event at the Doon Heritage Crossroads and then on the final day of the month to Chatham for the Gregor’s Crossing Medieval Faire! And, for a finishing touch for the month, we might just visit a few events along the way!