A Visit to Elmvale Maple Syrup Festival

Seasonal Ontario Food April 19 2011

The 46th annual Elmvale Maple Syrup Festival took place on Saturday, and your intrepid reporters were there. I suspect far fewer than the usual number of people were though, as the weather could only be described as pissing. Well, cold. I guess it could also be described as cold. Cold and pissing. Brrrrr. Snow would actually have been better in some ways, but never mind; we had that later. This is spring, is it?

Elmvale is a small town of about 1,700 people, north of Barrie and south of Midland. Wasaga Beach lies pretty much directly to the west. We had driven through it before, but had never really stopped to look at it. I was surprised at what an attractive town it really is, and how much it had going for it.