MAPLE SYRUP MUSEUM OF ONTARIO
The Maple Syrup Museum is now within an hour of the GTA!
The Maple Syrup Museum of Ontario is open daily 9-5 from Nov 16-Dec 22 and is part of our Christmas Experience. No ticket, pass, reservation or entrance fee required and offering our award-winning small batch maple syrup and small museum collector bottles.
The Museum reopens during our Maple Syrup Experience (Feb. 15-April 6, 2025).
Fully closed Dec 23, 2024-Feb 14, 2025.
The Gateway to breathtaking regions of Erin, Caledon, Headwaters, and Fergus Elora.
Stop in, enjoy the museum, and stretch your legs on our maple trial before shopping for our small batch maple products. Our Potted Landscape Tree Garden is also open with selection of potted of maples, spruce, and pine trees. There is no entrance or parking charge, and dogs are welcome on a leash
The Gathering of the Giants Parkland
After you visit the Maple Syrup Museum of Ontario we invite you to take the sugarbush trail to the Gathering of the Giants Parkland, a collection of giant sugar maple trees which are estimated to be at least 200 years old. The Maple Syrup Museum of Ontario and Elliott Tree Farm are honoured to share their magnificence and beauty with you. Please respectfully enjoy the peace and tranquillity of this amazing space.
Elliott Tree farm acknowledges the land on which we welcome you to. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land to the indigenous who discovered how to make maple sugar and sustain themselves within nature. The Elliott family arrived at the farm in the Summer of 1984 and recognize their stewardship to care for the land and its people through sustainable farming and community.
Today, Elliott Tree Farm specializes in growing Christmas trees and producing maple syrup and opens their doors for you to enjoy every Christmas and maple season.
The Maple Syrup Museum of Ontario is part of these authentic seasonal experiences and the artifacts have been carefully curated with easy-to-read story plaques to provide a fun and educational cultural experience.
When visiting the museum, you will learn why maple syrup production holds a cultural and historical significance of tradition and food value for the Indigenous people of Ontario and how maple syrup connected their communities to the land, reflecting a harmonious relationship with nature.
From those times of discovery, you will learn how early European settlers to the province adopted and adapted the indigenous maple syrup techniques making maple syrup a staple of early Canadian diets, providing a sweet source of sustenance during harsh winters.
Each year, during maple season, Elliott Tree Farm offers an authentic maple syrup experience to complement the museum.
You can join us starting on family day weekend in February through early April by reserving tickets and enjoy our famous all you can eat pancakes with our award-winning maple syrup followed by a visit to the sugarbush and woodfired sugar shack to taste, learn and explore the annual tradition of maple syrup in Ontario.
We look forward to welcoming you and your family to the Maple Syrup Museum of Ontario and sharing with you the history of this annual Canadian tradition which adorns our national flag.
Elliott Tree farm would like to give special thanks to:
Albert Martin, Kevin Snyder, Dale Martin, Bev Campbell, the Waterloo-Wellington Maple Syrup Producer’s Association,
and Central Counties Tourism.
