Our Maple Producing Regions

Bianka Pagé was granted a quota from the 5-million-tap issue of 2016 and undertook operations from scratch on an undeveloped stand of trees in 2018. She and her spouse built a sugar shack and set up their sugar bush.

There were challenges and setbacks. Bianka overcame them, and her efforts resulted in astonishing success:

  • In 2021, her maple syrup earned a Médaille Grand Or at La Grande Sève, confirming its quality as exceptional
  • That same year, she was featured in a full episode of the culinary TV program, “Un chef à la cabane
  • And in 2022, she was a finalist for Agricultural Enterprise of the Year at the Gens de Terre et Saveurs

Since 2022, she has chaired the women’s producer group Agricultrices de la Mauricie and maintained a prominent role in her region’s maple movement.

She has represented the next generation on the QMSP Board of Directors in the Mauricie since 2018 and a member of the UPA in Mauricie as well as her local in Maskinongé.

Bianka takes great pride in being able to mother her daughters well, while fulfilling her demanding professional obligations. She feels that she’s showing them how much one can achieve when you give it your all.

Her remarkable career spans 13 years as an administrator of the QMSP chapter in the Bas-St-Laurent-Gaspésie region, nine of them as president.

Sylvie Laliberté is a pioneer in the development of maple production on public forestland, in its rightful recognition as a driver of the regional economy, and in the mobilization of producers for the collective marketing of maple syrup in Québec.

She is a proud defender of the role of women in the world of maple production.

 

 

Starting with his presidency of the Saint-Jean-Valleyfield region from 1989 – 2022,  Serge went on to serve as 1st Vice-President of QMSP from 1995 – 2007, then President from  2007 – 2022 He was there for most of the biggest issues: the joint plan, sales agency, Strategic Reserve, marketing agreements, the Gagné report, quota regulations, crop insurance, and a host of others.

Implicating himself at all levels of the industry—from regional to national, he provided leadership in the all-important element of market development, notably in the period from 2012 to 2022.

Serge Beaulieu knows how to unite people. He used that human skill to help convince maple producers that, by working together, they’d achieve a critical goal: pulling in a stable income, year after year. Anybody who knows him (very well or even just a little) will testify that the producers meant everything to him. And that’s why they always had his ear.