Last Updated on February 1, 2021
This rock was taken from the creek seen here. It is filled with fossils and is a result of the glacier during the last Ice Age, 15-20 thousand years ago. Good glacial soil makes good maple syrup! The sugar maple is indigenous only to Northeast United States and Southeast Canada, both regions around the Great Lakes which were once covered by glaciers.
Of the world’s supply of maple syrup, Quebec produces 80 percent, Ontario 10 percent and all the other Canadian provinces plus the U.S. produce the remaining 10 percent.
This creek begins at a spring where local Native Americans had a meeting ground. A nearby creek-bed contained lots of arrowheads. By the time this area was settled, illness, starvation and war had wiped out the natives; new settlers encountered only an occasional Indian hunter.
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