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Acknowledged " Canadian Tourism Ambassador ", Pierre Faucher has been travelling around the world for more than 25 years now, in order to spread the knowledge of the pleasures of our sumptuous maple products and the french-canadian folk traditions. He his the first man from Québec to promote our sugar partys in Europe, in the United-States aswell as in Asia. Tall, sturdy, colorful and very natural, Pierre is, without any doubt, Québec’s tourist industry best known representative at an internalional level. Often, he is chosen as host ou spokesman in different cultural and tourist manifestations in collaboration with the government of Canada, of Quebec, of France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy, to name just a few. Pierre Faucher shares his time between his three (3) folk establisments that is : La Cabane à Pierre in Frampton and in Angers (France) aswell as La Sucrerie de la Montagne in Rigaud, near Montréal (Qc).
The Faucher : Maple sugar knowledge passed down from father to son After Napoléon (born in 1881), his son Jules (born 1903) and his son Pierre (1946), the fourth 4th generation of maple sugar connaisseurs is maintained by Pierre’s son, Stéfan.Stéfan was born in Rigaud (Québec), a town situated between Ottawa and Montréal. On february 15, 1978, the exact same day the new sugar cabin investment was born : La Sucrerie de la Montagne was officially inaugurated. Stéfan’s first memories are impregnated with traditionnal folk music, the delicious smell of boiling maple water in the sugar shack and the festive mood around the family table loaded with appetizing (and sweet!) home-made food!
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