Tag: 2025

Air Bounce Adventures is bringing five large air bounce amusements to the festival. they are located by the Arena.

Durham Region’s ONLY
Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital

Welcome to Soper Creek Wildlife Rescue, Durham Region’s ONLY Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital; we are licensed by the Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry and Canadian Wildlife Services to rescue and rehabilitate sick, injured, abandoned, and orphaned wildlife. Our goal is to release our patients back into the wild.

Events:

• • Learning how to bandage teddy bears
  • How to feed a baby animals station
  • Nutrition Matching Games
  • Skulls, Pelts, and other various animal artifacts
  • Flip & Match Games Associated with wildlife rehabilitation
  • How to help wildlife in your own backyard.

Schedule:

• • Saturday: 11am, 1pm, and 3pm  each show is approximately 30-45 minutes
  • Sunday: 10:15am, 12:15pm and 2:15pm  each show is approximately 30-45 minutes

Offering free coffee/tea/water and cake to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the United Church of Canada. Cake for the first 1,000 people and limitless beverages will be served on the north yard, weather permitting, or inside if inclement weather.

The cake will be purchased from a store and we will make the beverages. We have people that have their food handlers course and our kitchen is inspected and passed annually by the Durham Region Health Department. We will open the Sanctuary to the public on both days of the SMSF and have many items on display from the 1925’s and provide a tour of the Sanctuary. There will be music played on the Pipe Organ and Grand Piano and hymns through the ages will be streamed over the sound system. When the Organ is being played, the music from the pipes of the organ will be heard on the street. The accessible lower hall with tables and chairs will be available as a warming station. An accessible washroom and baby changing area will also be provided.

Welcome to the new age in Petting Zoos, where the world’s animals come together in an interactive and educational environment. The young and the young at heart will enjoy petting, feeding & learning about the animals that most have only read about or seen on TV.

Watch the children’s faces light up as they ride a live pony for the first time. Don’t forget your camera as you will want to keep this proud moment for all to see.

The Tiger Paw Exotics petting zoo and pony rides are located beside the arena. While the petting zoo is free, pony rides are $5 per ride.

• Bath Tub Poster 2025
• Bathtub Race Rules and Details 2025
• Bathtub Race Team Registration Form 2025
• Bathtub Race Waiver and Consent Form 2025

Centre of town at High Noon Brock Rugby has decided this year to have bath tub races so Clean up your Act and join in the fun. Make that bath tub real pretty, dress up with a wild imagination and win BEST DRESSED

David Croxall davidcroxall@yahoo.ca

2025 marks the 28th year that Harlaine Maple Products has welcomed visitors to its sugar shack as part of the Sunderland Maple Syrup Festival. Hundreds of people have visited their farm on Concession 1 south of Sunderland to see how an old-fashioned product is made using the latest in modern technology.

www.HarlaineMaple.ca

Douglas and Gloria Harder purchased the farm in 1954 from Vince Beaton (sons Jack and Jim) who had previously boiled sap at this maple bush, since 1933. Douglas started boiling at his parents maple bush when he was in his early teens, and continued on after purchasing the property. At age 87, Douglas passed away in 2004.

Paul and his Dad tapped around 500 to 600 taps in the 1970’s, all with buckets. In 1984, they put in the first pipeline with approximately 150 taps. The next year, the whole bush was on pipeline. They always had a used evaporator, approximately, 4×8, and boiled in the bush with no hydro until 1991, when a new building was built near the house. Now there is water and hydro for late night boiling. The building includes an evaporation room, a store, a kitchen and a small bottling room. Once this building was erected, we were able to expand and now have approximately 2,500 taps.

In 2011, we finally purchased a new Lapierre Force 5 evaporator. It’s all stainless steel and very efficient. We still fire it with wood, and it can process approximately 250 gallons of sap an hour. On a good year, with many cold nights and warm sunny days, we can make approximately 1700 liters of maple syrup. We also make maple butter and maple sugar candy, for sale along with the popular maple syrup. During the festival years, we have seen over 4,000 people come out to the bush to watch the syrup being made. We have had people involved for the last 18 years of the festival, hosting bush tours, demonstrating maple syrup production, boiling sap in a large kettle as the pioneers did, and showing how the native people boiled sap using a hollowed out log and hot stones from the fire.

Harlaine Maple Products store is open during the festival, plus we have a booth on the main street of Sunderland. In 2012, we hosted the first tapping for the Kawartha Haliburton Maple Syrup Association. We are also members of the Ontario Maple Syrup Producers Association.

Harlaine Maple Products have toured the world and we are proud to be able to produce pure maple syrup: A Canadian tradition. As for recipes, we always enjoy fresh maple syrup on Old Fashioned Johnny Cake, maple syrup pie, maple butter tarts and maple apple crisp. Maple Syrup is also excellent on fruit and with carrots, squash and turnip.

REMINDER: Get your bus tickets for a tour of Harlaine Maple Products at Sunderland Public School during the Sunderland Maple Syrup Festival!