Maple syrup in New Brunswick, county by county
- Maple farms, 2021
- 188
- −11% since 2016
- Taps, 2021
- 3.5 million
- +54% since 2016
- Sap usually starts
- Mar 27
- to Apr 27 · weather estimate
- Divisions with a page
- 10
- of 13 with maple farms
Reading the map
Where New Brunswick's sugaring happens
Restigouche alone holds 2,102,766 taps (60% of the province). Divisions shaded lightest have the fewest taps; cream divisions have their tap count withheld by Statistics Canada; grey divisions reported fewer than five farms with taps and have no atlas page. Click any division for its season calendar.
No official season record exists for New Brunswick, so the division dates below are a weather estimate: the median of each division's own weather signals over 35 seasons. Weighted by farms, the province's signal runs from about Mar 27 to Apr 27.
Every census division
New Brunswick maple production and season dates by division
| Division | Farms | Taps | Taps vs 2016 | Sap usually runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restigouche | 54 | 2,102,766 | +56% | Apr 2 – May 2 |
| Madawaska | 29 | 635,532 | +55% | Mar 30 – May 1 |
| Carleton | 24 | 472,400 | +55% | Mar 21 – Apr 23 |
| Victoria | 7 | 127,212E | +78% | Mar 28 – Apr 30 |
| Northumberland | 0 | 0 | fewer than 5 farms · no page | |
| Saint John | 0 | 0 | fewer than 5 farms · no page | |
| York | 18 | withheld by Statistics Canada | Mar 20 – Apr 21 | |
| Kings | 16 | withheld by Statistics Canada | Mar 18 – Apr 18 | |
| Gloucester | 13 | withheld by Statistics Canada | Apr 1 – Apr 30 | |
| Albert | 8 | withheld by Statistics Canada | Mar 20 – Apr 21 | |
| Westmorland | 7E | withheld by Statistics Canada | Mar 20 – Apr 21 | |
| Queens | 5 | withheld by Statistics Canada | Mar 21 – Apr 21 | |
| Charlotte | 3E | withheld by Statistics Canada | fewer than 5 farms · no page | |
| Kent | 2 | withheld by Statistics Canada | fewer than 5 farms · no page | |
| Sunbury | 2 | withheld by Statistics Canada | fewer than 5 farms · no page | |
| New Brunswick total | 188 | 3,523,948 | +54% | Weather estimate Mar 27 – Apr 27 |
- E Statistics Canada quality grade: use with caution.
- "Withheld by Statistics Canada": Statistics Canada suppressed the value as too unreliable to publish (F). The farm count is still published.
- Division figures need not sum to the province total because of the withheld values. Statistics Canada cautions that 2021 and 2016 are not strictly comparable: the census-farm definition changed in 2021, and farms were assigned to their main location more strictly.
- Statistics Canada doesn't publish syrup volume by census division, so this table has no gallons or litres.
About this page
Production figures are copied, unchanged, from Statistics Canada Tables 32-10-0362-01 (2021) and 32-10-0423-01 (2016). Season dates come from the atlas: 35 seasons of daily Daymet temperatures at each division's reference town, scored with the freeze-thaw rule behind our live forecast. How the atlas is built →
Sources · 5
- 1.Maple taps, Census of Agriculture, 2021 (Table 32-10-0362-01) · Statistics Canada
- 2.Maple taps, Census of Agriculture, 2011 and 2016 (Table 32-10-0423-01) · Statistics Canada
- 3.Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R1 · ORNL DAAC
- 4.2021 Census cartographic boundary files (census divisions, population centres) · Statistics Canada
- 5.GeoNames geographical database (CA) · GeoNames
Licences and attribution
- Adapted from Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture 2021 and 2016 (Tables 32-10-0362-01 and 32-10-0423-01), 2021 Census population and dwelling counts (Tables 98-10-0002-01 and 98-10-0011-01) and 2021 Census cartographic boundary files. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
- Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- Thornton, M.M., R. Shrestha, Y. Wei, P.E. Thornton, S-C. Kao, and B.E. Wilson. 2022. Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R1. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2129
- Place coordinates: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
FAQ
New Brunswick maple questions
- Which census division in New Brunswick makes the most maple syrup?
- Statistics Canada doesn't publish syrup volume by census division, so the best measure is taps. Restigouche had the most in the 2021 Census of Agriculture: 2,102,766 taps on 54 farms, about 60% of the province's taps. Statistics Canada withheld the tap count for 9 divisions, so the ranking covers divisions with a published count.
- How many maple producers are there in New Brunswick?
- The 2021 Census of Agriculture counted 188 farms reporting maple taps in New Brunswick (212 in 2016), with 3,523,948 taps. Statistics Canada cautions that 2021 and 2016 are not strictly comparable because the census-farm definition changed.
- Where does the sap run first in New Brunswick?
- By our weather record, Kings (Quispamsis) typically starts around March 18, while Restigouche (Campbellton) starts around April 2, a spread of about 15 days across the province.
Other provinces
The maple atlas elsewhere
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