MAPLE SUGAR MOLD

DateLate 19th or Early 20th Century

DimensionsOverall: 6.4 x 11.6 cm

Credit LineTransfer from the London and Middlesex Historical Society, 1958

Object number1958.001.389

Label TextThis is a maple sugar mold. The first European settlers to what is now Canada learned how to make maple sugar and syrup from First Nations people. This sweetener was the only one available in Canada until cane sugar refining began in the early 1850s.

NameMOLD