- Sugar shack' redirects here. For the song by Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs, see Sugar Shack.
A
sugar shack, also known as
sap house,
sugar house,
sugar shanty or
sugar cabin (
French:
cabane à sucre) is a semi-commercial establishment, prominent mainly in
Eastern Canada (although in some of
New England's territory which is today part of the
United States old sugar cabins can be found on properties belonging to the first settler families). Like the name implies, sugar houses are small cabins or series of cabins, originally destined to belong to certain private or farm estates, and where
sap collected from
sugar maple trees is boiled into
maple syrup. Often found on the same territory is the
sugar bush, which is intended for cultivation and production of maple syrup by way of craftsmanship (as opposed to global mass production factories built for that purpose in the 20th century).